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  1. Life

    Steroids boost muscles for the long haul

    Experiments in mice suggest that effects don’t end when doping does.

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  2. Cosmology

    Dark energy search gets murkier

    Supernova measurements muddle scientists’ efforts to explain universe’s accelerating expansion.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Exercise seems to limit bad falls in elderly

    Regular exercise might limit broken bones due to bad falls in elderly people.

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  4. Life

    Morel mushroom may grow crop of its own

    A fungus could be a farmer itself, sowing, cultivating and harvesting bacteria.

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  5. Cosmology

    Candidates for dark matter particles bite the dust

    Most sensitive experiment yet determines that earlier findings were just artifacts.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Evidence mounts for bat origins of SARS

    New viruses in the mammals closely match the human form of the infection.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Mice lose the blues quickly with experimental drug

    Studies in mice point to new, fast-acting antidepressants.

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  8. Genetics

    People’s genes welcome their microbes

    In mice and humans, genetic variants seem to control the bacterial mix on and in bodies.

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  9. Astronomy

    An Earth-sized hell circles faraway star

    Kepler-78b, an Earth-sized, extremely hot exoplanet made of rock and iron, is the smallest with known diameter and mass.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Antibodies show progress against HIV

    Proteins suppress disease in monkeys, but don’t cure it.

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  11. Chemistry

    Floating beads of water act as tiny test tubes

    Chemists exploit pH and ion charge in superheated water drops to create nanoparticles.

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  12. Genetics

    Genetic variants may keep Siberians warm

    People in frigid cold evolved changes in fat metabolism, shivering.

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