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  1. Astronomy

    Supernova may have kicked off solar system

    Force of explosion could explain chemical mysteries contained within asteroids.

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  2. Humans

    Future wars may be fought by synapses

    Neuroscientists consider defense applications of recent insights into how the brain works.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Hands off and on in schizophrenia

    A broken connection to one’s physical self may cause a rubber hand to seem like a real one.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Prompt liver transplant boosts survival in heavy drinkers

    Some patients with severe organ inflammation from alcohol use can benefit from the operation.

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  5. Space

    How the moon got its magnetism

    Earth’s tug or asteroid impacts may have generated the ancient lunar magnetic field.

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  6. Life

    Two steps to primate social living

    Evolutionary shifts about 52 million and 16 million years ago led to the group structures observed today, researchers argue.

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  7. Tech

    Tiniest car gets a test drive

    Scientists build the world's tiniest electric 'roadster,' and zap it into action.

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  8. Life

    A gland grows itself

    Japanese researchers coax a pituitary to develop from stem cells in a lab dish.

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  9. Life

    Prehistoric horses came in leopard print

    Dappled animals, once thought to be the result of selective breeding after domestication, were around when early humans depicted them on cave walls.

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  10. Life

    School rules

    Fish coordinate with one, or perhaps two, of their neighbors to make group travel a swimming success.

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  11. Paleontology

    DNA suggests North American mammoth species interbred

    Supposedly separate types may really have been one.

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  12. Life

    Giant beavers had hidden vocal talents

    With air passageways in its skull like no other animal known, an extinct outsized rodent may have made sound all its own.

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