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  1. Humans

    Toddlers triumphant

    In new studies, toddlers display dramatic advances in object recognition that may underlie verbal and symbolic achievements.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Protein links metabolism and circadian rhythms

    Scientists have known for ages that metabolism is tied to the body’s daily rhythms. Two new studies suggest how.

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  3. Physics

    Watching the northern lights form

    Scientists may have solved the mystery of what triggers the events that spark the northern and southern lights.

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  4. Life

    Choose your own splicer

    Zinc-finger proteins can cut, splice or tweak a targeted gene, and a new “open source” method for making customized zinc-finger proteins aimed at specific genes will give scientists easier access to this powerful genetic tool.

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  5. Plants

    Fugitives spread bumblebee diseases

    Pathogens hitchhike on commercial bees that escape from greenhouses. These escapees bring disease to wild bumblebees.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    New HIV inhibitor

    A new HIV drug can, when combined with other therapies, suppress even the most drug-resistant strains of the virus that causes AIDS, scientists report in two papers in the July 24 New England Journal of Medicine.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Statin snag

    A gene variant explains why some people get muscle pains from cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins.

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  8. Plants

    Parasitic plant gets more than a meal

    The parasitic vine known as dodder really sucks. It pierces the tissue of other plants — some of which are important crops — extracting water and nutrients needed for its own growth. But it also consumes molecules that scientists could manipulate to bring on the parasite’s demise.

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  9. Plants

    Parasite Godzilla

    Parasites are small but have a big impact. An estuary study reveals that these little annoyances add up to a lot of biomass.

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  10. Chemistry

    Quantum physics makes water different

    The length of bonds connecting water molecules could demonstrate quantum effects and help explain some of water’s weirdness.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Viagra and women

    Viagra eases some sexual problems for women taking antidepressants

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  12. Earth

    Seafloor chronicles

    Survey of ocean floor reveals long history, from a geological fault to the wreckage of the Lusitania.

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