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  1. Health & Medicine

    Bone Builder: Drug may offer steroid users new protection against fractures

    A bone-growth medication called teriparatide outperforms the standard bone-preserving drug alendronate in people with steroid-induced osteoporosis.

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  2. Astronomy

    Flare-Up: Comet Holmes’ surprise bloom

    Comet 17P/Holmes abruptly brightened last month, blossoming into a naked eye object.

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  3. Crime Growth: Early mental ills fuel young-adult offending

    Mental disorders in children can lead to criminal behavior in adulthood.

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  4. Paleontology

    Huge, yet not quite life-size

    The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh will unveil the world's largest dinosaur mural on Nov. 21, when its dinosaur halls reopen after a 30-month, $36 million renovation.

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  5. Plants

    Tough Frills: Ferns’ wimp stage aces survival test

    A supposedly fragile stage in the life of ferns shows surprising toughness.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Superbug: What makes one bacterium so deadly

    A molecule that pierces immune cells gives some aggressive antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria their fearsome virulence.

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  7. Earth

    New climate sensor: Swiss grapes

    Records of grape harvests reveal the summer climate in parts of Switzerland as far back as the 1400s.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Too little sleep may fatten kids

    Lack of sleep may promote childhood obesity.

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  9. Tech

    Bucky shrink-wrap

    Scientists filmed cage-shaped carbon molecules as they shrank to become buckyballs.

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  10. Agriculture

    Insects laughing at Bt toxin? Try this

    A new countermeasure restores the toxicity of Bt pesticides to insects that have evolved resistance.

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  11. Anthropology

    Wild chimps scale branches of culture

    Distinctive behaviors in wild-chimp communities point to a basic cultural capacity in these animals.

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  12. Animals

    Mr. Not Wrong: Not my species? Not a problem

    Female toads that accept mates of another species in tough times may be looking after their own interest.

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