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  1. Health & Medicine

    Nanomagnets tackle cancer

    Under the influence of an external magnetic field, tiny magnets act as highly localized space heaters, warming to temperatures that kill adjacent cancer cells.

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  2. Life

    Smallest known snake

    New species is thin as a spaghetti noodle but shorter.

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  3. Physics

    Chem 101

    At high pressures, inner electrons begin to affect the structure of lithium.

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  4. Space

    Officially ice

    Phoenix Mars Lander detects water, a landmark that, along with other successes, prompts NASA to extend the mission.

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  5. Humans

    Wake-up call for sleep apnea

    A large, long-term study of sleep apnea links the breathing disorder to increased risk of death.

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  6. Chemistry

    Small steps toward big energy gains

    New studies with different fuel cell catalysts show promising results.

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  7. Space

    How a star is born

    Researchers have developed a new and accurate simulation of the birth of the first stars in the universe.

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  8. Life

    Fish lie

    No, really. I like the other girl better. Really. Science reveals a fish dating scene worse than junior high school.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Dopamine could help the sleep-deprived still learn

    Sleep loss impairs fruit flies’ ability to learn, just as it does in people. But boosting dopamine in the flies can erase these learning deficits.

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  10. Astronomy

    Save the date: solar eclipse

    NASA will broadcast and webcast the next total solar eclipse Aug. 1, live from China

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Promising HIV gel fails in latest trial

    Halted in trials, an anti-HIV gel is ineffective, but may not add to risk of infection, as previously thought.

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  12. Archaeology

    Greeks followed a celestial Olympics

    A Greek gadget discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck not only tracked the motion of heavenly bodies and predicted eclipses, but also functioned as a sophisticated calendar and mapped the four-year cycle of the ancient Greek Olympics.

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