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  1. 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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  2. Life

    Life

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

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  3. Humans

    Ice Age cups crafted from crania

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

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  4. 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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  5. Space

    ‘Deep Impact’ comet revisited

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

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  6. Life

    Carnivorous bladderworts suck up prey

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

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Brain cells start sending signals early

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

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  8. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

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

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  9. Humans

    2012 budget offers pain and gain for R&D

    In a year of federal belt-tightening, the administration prioritizes basic research, education, clean energy and environmental science.

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  10. Humans

    Humans

    The sort-of-popular kids are the biggest bullies, plus more in this week’s news.

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  11. Life

    How cuts can spur tumor growth

    Cancerous cells flock to wounds, a study in mice finds.

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  12. Physics

    ‘Magnetricity’ behaves like electricity

    Currents of monopole-like magnetic charges created in an exotic material called spin ice act much like electricity.

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