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  1. Genetics

    Year in Review: Caffeine triggers cloning advance

    To successfully clone human cells, eggs must be dunked in the stimulant.

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  2. Humans

    Year in Review: Language learning starts before birth

    Babies seem familiar with vowels and words heard while in the womb.

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  3. Environment

    Stillbirth rates tied to lead in drinking water

    Fetal death rates rose in Washington, D.C., in parallel with two recent spikes in drinking water’s lead levels.

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  4. Science & Society

    Year in Review: High court rules against gene patents

    The justices’ decision opens the way for choices in DNA testing.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Year in Review: Sleep clears the cluttered brain

    Some forms of brain washing are good, like the thorough hosing the brain gets during sleep.

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  6. Life

    Year in Review: A double dose of virus scares

    Outbreaks of two deadly viruses captured the world’s attention in 2013, but neither turned into the global pandemic expected to strike one of these years.

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  7. Plants

    Lone survivor of ancient flowers is gluttonous gene consumer

    The rare Amborella shrub has engulfed whole genomes from other species.

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  8. Humans

    Year in Review: New discoveries reshape debate over human ancestry

    Human evolution appears poised for a scientific makeover as the relationships among early hominids are disputed.

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  9. Cosmology

    Year in Review: Planck refines cosmic history

    The satellite data hint at a slower expansion rate for universe.

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  10. Life

    Year in Review: Bioengineers make headway on human body parts

    New techniques produce mimics of brain, liver, heart, kidney, retina.

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  11. Life

    Year in Review: Your body is mostly microbes

    Microbiome results argue for new view of animals as superorganisms.

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  12. Life

    Solving the mystery of Alzheimer’s start

    Molecular evildoers team up to launch neural destruction.

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