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  1. Genetics

    Ebola continues to shift, but grows no more fatal

    In the West African epidemic, Ebola evolved and spread quickly, but the virus is not becoming deadlier over time.

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  2. Animals

    How mantis shrimps spar

    In ritualized combat between deadly mantis shrimp, blows count but don’t kill.

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  3. Animals

    One bold, misinformed spider slows a colony’s ability to learn

    Incorrect ideas prove more dangerous in bold velvet spiders than in shyer ones.

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  4. Earth

    Most of Earth’s impact craters await discovery

    Hundreds of undiscovered impact craters probably dot Earth’s surface, new research estimates.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Antibiotics can treat appendicitis

    Antibiotics can successfully treat the majority of cases of a type of appendicitis, researchers find.

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  6. Astronomy

    Pluto at last

    Precision matters, whether looking at global temperatures, subatomic particles or the carefully timed approach to a faraway world.

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  7. Planetary Science

    Water’s origin story, science and sci-fi and more reader feedback

    Readers discuss how Earth got its water, chat about a hot spot's violent past and more.

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  8. Animals

    Unpredictable egg scramble throws off parasitic parents

    Eggs of some species of warbler and weaver birds appear to have individual signatures, which can help distinguish them from the eggs of parasitic cuckoos.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Rehab for psychopaths

    Psychopaths often don’t fit movie stereotypes, but they share particular characteristics. New research shows that, contrary to popular thought, cognitive behavioral therapy can help some psychopaths stay out of prison.

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  10. Astronomy

    Distant galaxy may contain primeval stars

    A stockpile of the first generation of stars might be lighting up gas in a galaxy that existed roughly 800 million years after the Big Bang.

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  11. Neuroscience

    Homunculus reimagined

    A new study pinpoints the part of the brain that controls the neck muscles, tweaking the motor homunculus.

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  12. Animals

    Moon jellies muscle their way to recovery

    Symmetrization, using rapid muscle movements to repair body symmetry, is the go-to healing mechanism for the limbed stage of moon jellyfish.

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