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  1. Life

    Genes & Cells

    How nanotubes trigger a cell’s gag reflex, the skulking 1918 flu and more in this week’s news.

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  2. Life

    Singled Out

    How to study cells, one by one.

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  3. Planetary Science

    Fertile Frontiers

    Alien-life hunters focus on moons in outer solar system

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  4. Health & Medicine

    The Probabilistic Mind

    Human brains evolved to deal with doubt.

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  5. Life

    Penguins may sniff out relatives

    A zoo study sees hints of odor-based kin recognition in colony-dwelling birds.

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  6. Life

    XMRV tie to chronic fatigue debunked

    A virus that was tied to the mysterious syndrome by 2009 research appears to have been a laboratory contaminant.

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  7. Humans

    Humans reached Asia in two waves

    New genetic data show that some early migrants interbred with a mysterious Neandertal sister group.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    When the brain learns to feel pain, kids’ effect on paternal testosterone and more in this week’s news.

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  9. Chemistry

    Science gets the deets on DEET

    New research demonstrates how insect repellent may mix up mosquitoes’ smelling machinery.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Ringing in ears may have deeper source

    Tinnitus results from the brain’s effort to compensate for hearing loss, a study concludes.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Preterm infants show mortality risks as children, adults

    Death rates are higher in preemies than full-term babies when these people reach early adulthood, a large study finds.

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  12. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    The source of the Milky Way’s spirals, a new way to spot gravitational waves and more in this week’s news.

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