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  1. Science & Society

    Slight boost for U.S. climate research funding

    While most science funding remains flat lined in President Obama’s 2015 budget, climate change research gets an increase.

    By Beth Mole
  2. Materials Science

    World’s thinnest material stretches, bends, twists

    Graphene, the thinnest known material at one carbon atom thick, can be manipulated under the microscope using tricks from a variety of paper-cutting origami called kirigami.

    By Andrew Grant
  3. Astronomy

    Mature galaxies found in young universe

    Inactive galaxies the size of the Milky Way found dating to when the universe was just 1.5 billion years old.

    By Christopher Crockett
  4. Life

    The Monkey’s Voyage

    By 26 million years ago, the ancestors of today’s New World monkeys had arrived in South America.