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  1. Humans

    Fishing curbs can lead to profit

    New economic models suggest that fishing crews that cut back long enough to let stocks rebound will find compensation in higher profits later.

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  2. Macho pheromones rile fellows

    Pheromones that induce aggression in other male mice are found in the major urinary protein complex in the animals' urine.

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  3. Physics

    Airy theory, but true

    Physicists have created a beam of light that bends in a curve.

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  4. Physics

    Light Swell: Optical rogue waves resemble oceanic ones

    Signals in optical fibers can combine into rare, short-lived spikes that resemble oceanic rogue waves.

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  5. Astronomy

    Run of the Mill: Finding galactic building blocks in early universe

    Astronomers have discovered 27 faint, run-of-the-mill galaxies from the early universe that may be some of the building blocks of giant galaxies such as the Milky Way.

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  6. Astronomy

    Stellar Opposites: Sky survey reveals new halo of stars

    The Milky Way galaxy possesses a distinct outer halo that orbits in the opposite direction from its inner halo and the rest of the galaxy.

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  7. Pulling Together: Mitotic ring self-assembly revealed

    A ring of proteins forms around the "waistlines" of cells to contract and split the cells in two, and scientists have now discovered how that ring self-assembles.

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  8. Animals

    Hatch a Thief: Brains incline birds toward a life of crime

    When it comes to a bird family's propensity to pilfer, a larger than usual brain for a particular body size is more important than body size alone.

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  9. Humans

    A New Editor for Science News

    Science News welcomes a new Editor in Chief.

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  10. Anthropology

    Ancient Ailment? Early human may have carried tuberculosis

    A 500,000-year-old Homo erectus skull from Turkey may show telltale signs of tuberculosis, by far the earliest such evidence of the disease.

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  11. Cells’ innards may share origin

    Many of the internal structures of a cell may have evolved from an ancient, simpler compartment.

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  12. Escaping flatland

    Growing cells in gelatinous materials gains in popularity as more researchers realize how the three-dimensional arrangement of cells influences cell behavior—and increases the relevance of experiments.

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