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  1. Climate

    Biggest climate warmers

    The United States, China, Russia, Brazil, India, Germany and the United Kingdom are responsible for more than 60 percent of the 0.74 degree Celsius rise in global average temperature observed from 1906 to 2005.

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  2. Climate

    Strong winds may have waylaid global warming

    Gusts over the Pacific Ocean may have stashed heat underwater since 2001.

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  3. Science & Society

    Naturalists at Sea

    For centuries after Columbus, the flora and fauna of the New World remained a mystery to Europeans. But in the 1600s and 1700s, explorers began to visit and describe what were then considered remote corners of the Earth.

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  4. Climate

    Weather patterns over Southern Hemisphere have a regular pulse

    Variations in energy and rainfall over the Southern Hemisphere follow a pattern that repeats every 20 to 30 days.

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  5. Neuroscience

    Cataloging the connections

    Though a complete map of the brain’s connections is many years away, the mathematical theory of networks can help fill in some of the blank spots.

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  6. Neuroscience

    Brain shot

    Deciphering how the brain’s circuitry produces thought and behavior is an ambitious and enticing goal on the scale of the Apollo Program or the Human Genome Project. But the neuroscientists involved in a new federal effort have many challenges ahead.

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  7. Genetics

    When flowers died out in Arctic, so did mammoths

    Genetic analysis finds vegetation change in the Arctic around same time as megafauna extinction.

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  8. Astronomy

    Old stars gleaned neighbors’ gas, Hubble data show

    Blue straggler stars can continue to burn hot after taking material from a stellar companion.

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  9. Materials Science

    Scientists throw crystals a curve

    Particles inside a sphere assemble into ordered ribbons, not lumps.

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  10. Neuroscience

    Diuretic may treat autism, study in rodents suggests

    Drug that lowers chloride levels in brain cells staves off symptoms in mice and rats.

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  11. Tech

    The gene sequencing future is here

    The biggest expense in sequencing a human genome now is the cost of storing it.

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  12. Planetary Science

    Big space rock makes an impact on Mars

    An orbiting spacecraft snapped images of a huge crater and blast marks on the surface of the Red Planet.

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