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  1. Health & Medicine

    Skip spine stabilization and get to the hospital

    Gunshot victims may be more likely to survive if they get to the hospital quickly instead of getting spine stabilization first.

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  2. Life

    Sea slug steals genes for greens, makes chlorophyll like a plant

    A sea slug, long known as a kidnapper of algal biochemistry, can make its own supply of a key photosynthetic compound.

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  3. Space

    Saving the Earth with dynamical simulations

    A new model suggests how protoplanets kept a safe distance from the sun.

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  4. Archaeology

    Ancient hominids may have been seafarers

    Researchers have discovered hundreds of African-style stone hand axes on Crete, suggesting that sea-going hominids reached the island hundreds of thousands of years ago en route to Europe.

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  5. Life

    Fruit fly bodies bank stem cells

    Stem cells carve their own niches.

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  6. Physics

    Symmetry found hidden in supercold atoms

    Scientists have detected an elusive, complex symmetry in the frequencies of resonating particles

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  7. Space

    Gamma-ray burst may reveal some of oldest dust in the universe

    Remote flash may have uncovered supernova-generated dust from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang

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  8. Life

    Bornavirus genes found in human DNA

    Researchers have found molecular fossils of an RNA virus in human and other mammalian genomes, pushing back the emergence of RNA viruses millions of years.

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  9. Space

    WISE sees its first stars

    NASA's new infrared observatory is ready for action.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    New test could discern serious condition early after bone marrow transplant

    Protein level in blood reveals graft-versus-host disease, may indicate severity of this complication

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  11. Earth

    Footprints could push back tetrapod origins

    Newly discovered trackways much older than previous evidence for sea-to-land transition.

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  12. Life

    Moss counters shortness with A-bomb-style clouds

    Sphagnum overcomes drag by launching its spores in vortex rings.

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