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  1. Archaeology

    Europe’s Stone Age fishers used beeswax to make a point

    Late Stone Age Europeans made spears with beeswax adhesive.

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  2. Neuroscience

    New book offers a peek into the mind of Oliver Sacks

    The wide-ranging essays in Oliver Sacks’ ‘The River of Consciousness’ contemplate evolution, memory and more.

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  3. Tech

    The rise of respectful robots

    A new roaming robot knows how to keep out from underfoot.

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  4. Tech

    New atomic clock is most precise yet

    This next-gen atomic clock ticks at a steady beat, but time will tell just how well it tells time.

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  5. Agriculture

    Much of the world’s honey now contains bee-harming pesticides

    A controversial group of chemicals called neonicotinoids has a global impact, tests of honey samples show.

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  6. Physics

    Proton size still perplexes despite a new measurement

    Study of hydrogen atoms supports the case for a smaller proton.

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  7. Genetics

    Ancient humans avoided inbreeding by networking

    Ancient DNA expands foragers’ social, mating networks.

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  8. Astronomy

    50 years ago, a spacecraft discovered oxygen in moon rocks

    In 1967, scientists dreamed of lunar processing plants to turn moon rocks into oxygen.

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  9. Chemistry

    Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to 3-D snapshots of life’s atomic details

    An imaging technique that gives up-close 3-D views of proteins is honored in this year's chemistry Nobel Prize.

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  10. Science & Society

    The SN 10: Meet the scientists ready to transform their fields

    In this year’s SN 10, meet early- and mid-career research stars who are coming up with and testing new ideas in astronomy, archaeology, artificial intelligence and more.

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  11. Plants

    José Dinneny rethinks how plants hunt for water

    Plant biologist José Dinneny probes the very beginnings of root development, which may have important implications for growing food in a changing climate.

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  12. Physics

    Jennifer Dionne harnesses light to illuminate nano landscapes

    Nanophotonics research by materials scientist Jennifer Dionne could lead to improved drugs, cancer tests or invisibility cloaks.

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