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  1. Health & Medicine

    Food choices matter in weight control

    Potatoes and sugary soft drinks add pounds, a long-term analysis shows; fruit, yogurt and nuts help shed them.

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  2. Life

    Life

    Ultrasonic ribbits, saving dead trees and fishy retribution in this week’s news.

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  3. Life

    Multicellular life arises in a test tube

    A yeast experiment recapitulates a major early milestone in the history of life.

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  4. Space

    NASA spacecraft puts moon in new focus

    Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show fine details of the lunar surface.

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  5. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Moons may be common, plus transforming neutrinos, new comet images and more in this week’s news.

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  6. Physics

    Better putting in a few simple steps

    A physicist develops a rule of thumb for getting the ball in the hole.

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  7. Earth

    Modern-day sea level rise skyrocketing

    A spike that began during the 19th century appears to be linked to rising temperatures and increasing greenhouse gases.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Brain has two slots for working memory

    The left and right hemispheres have equal and independent capacity, monkey study finds.

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  9. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    A first look at the roots of sight, plus fading blues, steady birds and more in this week’s news.

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  10. Earth

    Earth & Environment

    Earth’s bulging waistline, plus ancient mangrove swamps and new threats from wildfires in this week’s news.

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  11. Physics

    Science of friction is a bit rough

    In lab experiments, physicists trying to understand earthquakes are bumping up against the limitations of existing theory.

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  12. Life

    Genes & Cells

    A look at how ovarian cancer spreads, plus clues to aging and immune links to cancer in this week’s news.

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