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  1. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Genes for butterfly wings and maintaining maleness, plus turtles meet their lizard relatives and more in this week’s news.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Knights’ bodily burden, go-to-sleep nerve cells, rat empathy and more in this week’s news.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    ‘Wave of death’ may not be a last gasp

    A minute after decapitation, a rat's severed head shows signs of life.

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  4. Psychology

    Kids share, chimps stash

    Divvying up goods comes easily to 3-year-old kids but not to adult chimps, a finding with evolutionary implications.

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  5. Physics

    Particle discovery fills a gap

    The neutral xi-sub-b is the eighth of nine predicted family members to be found.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    The brain sleeps in shifts, plus thinking better with folate, how brains feel the beat and more in this week's news.

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  7. Earth

    Small volcanoes add up to cooler climate

    Airborne particles sent skyward by eruptions since 2000 have counteracted the warming effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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  8. Life

    A tryst, then the power to resist

    House mice in Europe got some of their tolerance for rodenticides from hybridizing with a completely different species

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  9. Life

    The lion eats tonight …

    Attacks on humans peak after a full moon, when feline bellies tend to rumble.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Something in the air may cause lung damage in troops

    Unexplained breathing problems in soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan come from deposits that damage tiny passages in the lungs.

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  11. Life

    Shuffling the genetic deck

    Scientists map places where chromosomes mix and match genes.

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  12. Life

    Life

    Slacker fish, carnivorous pitfalls, a dinosaur gap and more in this week’s news.

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