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  1. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    A high-fiber diet may prolong life, plus more in this week’s news.

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  2. Life

    Packing away the poison

    A genetic adaptation in a Hudson River fish species allows it to simply store toxic pollutants in its fat.

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  3. Life

    Hibernation mystery

    Somehow overwintering bears slow their metabolic rates far more than their slightly decreased body temperatures would predict.

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  4. Physics

    Antilaser sucks up light

    A new technology could be used in optical computing.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Saving preemies’ vision

    A drug designed to fight cancer also may thwart aberrant blood vessel growth in the eyes of babies born preterm, a study finds.

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  6. Life

    Life

    A spider that's drawn to smelly socks, plus more in this week's news

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  7. Humans

    Ice Age cups crafted from crania

    An English cave serves up the oldest known vessels made from human skulls

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  8. Humans

    Human ancestors have identity crisis

    Fossils heralded as the remains of 4- to 7-million-year-old hominids might actually come from apes.

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  9. Space

    ‘Deep Impact’ comet revisited

    NASA takes pictures of Tempel 1 five years after shooting it with a probe.

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  10. Life

    Carnivorous bladderworts suck up prey

    High-speed movies confirm that bug-eating plants are vacuum feeders.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Brain cells start sending signals early

    Fetal neurons show firing patterns similar to those seen in sleeping adults.

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  12. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Jupiter's bold stripe is back, plus more in this week's news.

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