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  1. Neuroscience

    Self as Symbol

    The loopy nature of consciousness trips up scientists studying themselves.

    By Tom Siegfried
  2. Neuroscience

    Emblems of Awareness

    Brain signatures lead scientists to the seat of consciousness.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Life

    Deep Life

    Teeming masses of organisms thrive beneath the seafloor.

    By Alexandra Witze
  4. Health & Medicine

    Prions more mobile than thought

    Scientists coax pathogens from cow and goat to infect engineered mice, suggesting disease agents can readily jump from one species to another.

    By Rebecca Cheung
  5. Space

    More like Faux-malhaut b

    The Spitzer Space Telescope fails to find a visible planet circling where Hubble saw one four years ago.