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  1. Chemistry

    For truffle aroma, it’s not all about location

    Genes, not environment, play a key role in the prized fungus’s scent.

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  2. Life

    Pesticide-dosed bees lose future royalty, way home

    Unusual field tests reveal how common insecticides, even at nonfatal doses, can erode colonies and threaten the future of bumblebees and honeybees.

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  3. Chemistry

    Life’s building blocks grow close to home

    Chemical reactions in the early solar system create complex organic molecules.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Mapping the brain’s superhighways

    New scans created using diffusion MRI technique reveal an order to information flow in the mind.

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  5. Physics

    Cloaks for hiding heat

    A proposed invisibility cloak for heat could shield computers or satellites from high temperatures.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Psoriasis drugs show promise

    Two new drugs attack psoriasis by inhibiting interleukin-17, a focal player in the troublesome skin disease.

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  7. Humans

    New ancestor grasped at walking

    By 3.4 million years ago, two human relatives built differently for upright movement inhabited East Africa.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Slacker rat, worker rat

    Rodent work ethic, like people’s, comes in two types.

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  9. Life

    Fossils show signs of earliest burrowing

    Worms’ seafloor tunneling more than a half-billion years ago could have stirred up evolutionary forces.

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  10. Earth

    Venice falling

    Compacting soil means the flood-prone city continues to sink.

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  11. Physics

    Order from disorder

    Collective motion emerges spontaneously in wiggling protein strands.

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  12. Life

    The farther the better for corals after oil spill

    Deepwater organisms may be slow to recover from Gulf accident.

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