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  1. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    How to hunt for extraterrestrials, plus cosmic bursts, horseshoe orbits and more in this week’s news.

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  2. Humans

    Killing fields of ancient Syria revealed

    Stone corrals were used to trap whole herds of animals for mass slaughter.

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  3. Anthropology

    American Association of Physical Anthropologists

    Hobbit dentistry, ancient footprints and navigating gibbons in news from the recent physical anthropology meeting.

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  4. Space

    NASA pulls out of astrophysics missions

    Europe is now on its own for two planned spacecraft to study black holes and gravitational waves.

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  5. Humans

    Possibly pivotal human ancestor debated

    An ancient species that may have sparked the rise of humankind gets a new appraisal.

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  6. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    A quantum state is teleported, plus twisty light and foamy graphene in this week's news.

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  7. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Breakfast may help get the lead out, plus burrowing trilobites and warmer truffles in this week's news

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  8. Life

    Complex life hit freshwater early

    Tiny fossils in Scottish rock show that cells with nuclei had spread beyond the seas by a billion years ago.

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  9. Earth

    Seismologists rumble over quake clusters

    Japan tremor may be part of a second grouping of great quakes since 1900, some scientists say.

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  10. Life

    Gone fishing, orangutan-style

    Apes that catch fish in ponds and eat them raise the possibility that ancient hominids did the same.

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  11. Physics

    Time travel nixed in metamaterial world

    A desktop universe captures essential properties of the real thing.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    A hidden herpes risk, the rapid effects of a high-fat diet, explaining seniors' early rising and more in this week's news.

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