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  1. Planetary Science

    Maps reveal clouds on distant exoplanet

    Astronomers chart the atmosphere of Kepler-7b, some 1,000 light-years away.

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  2. Life

    Engineered salivary glands keep juices flowing

    Organs grown in a lab dish do their job when transplanted into mice.

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  3. Anthropology

    Ancient farming populations went boom, then bust

    Agriculture’s introduction led to big falls as well as rises in numbers of Europeans.

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  4. Microbes

    Microbes signal deceased’s time of death

    In a study using mice, germs accompany the body’s decay in a consistent time sequence.

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  5. Animals

    Centipede venom fights pain

    Molecule from toxin makes mice less sensitive to pain, may work as well as morphine.

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  6. Humans

    The last common ancestor of humans and chimps probably wasn’t much like either

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  7. Life

    Dangerous Digs

    By properly managing a tumor cell’s microenvironment, cancer researchers are making cancer something people live with, not die from.

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  8. Climate

    Humans found guilty in climate change

    International panel’s confidence increases that society is responsible for global warming.

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  9. Planetary Science

    Curiosity gets the dirt on Mars

    The NASA rover completes an analysis of the first soil collected from Gale Crater.

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  10. Neuroscience

    An on-off switch for eating

    By triggering or silencing certain brain cells, scientists can get mice to feed or stop feeding regardless of hunger.

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  11. Life

    Newfound biological clocks set by the moon

    Two unrelated marine organisms have rhythms dictated by tides, lunar cycle.

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  12. Plants

    Hard-shelled seaweed survives by its loose knees

    Stringy joints between calcified algae’s segments don’t break easily under repeated stresses.

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