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  1. Chemistry

    Dancing droplets reveal physics at work

    Magnetic fields can deflect liquid oxygen subject to the unusual “Leidenfrost effect.”

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Coffee gives jolt to life span

    Unlike wine's, coffee's benefits apparently keep increasing well beyond the first two servings.

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  3. Space

    Stellar superflares’ trigger challenged

    Massive eruptions on sunlike stars might not require magnetic interactions from a big, hot, nearby planet.

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  4. Humans

    Don’t listen to advice, and other advice from Nobel laureates

    Top scientists share stories and words of wisdom with finalists at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

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  5. Tech

    Paralyzed woman grips, sips coffee with robot arm

    For the first time, a brain-computer interface is powerful enough to enable useful movement in human patients.

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  6. Humans

    At ISEF, fusion is hot

    A South Carolina teen makes the finals of the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair by developing a directed neutron source.

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  7. Earth

    Natural sinks still sopping up carbon

    Ecosystems haven’t yet maxed out their ability to absorb fossil fuel emissions, new calculations suggest.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Even moderate noise may harm hearing

    Chronic, low-level sound exposure causes deficits in rats.

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  9. Schizophrenia’s core genetic features proposed

    Researchers may be closing in on the inherited component of a disease whose causes have been difficult to establish.

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  10. Life

    Gene study links stronger memories, PTSD

    New finding may help explain why some people experience psychological problems after traumatic experiences.

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  11. Life

    Climate change may leave many mammals homeless

    In some places over the next century, projected warming threatens the survival of more than one in three species.

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  12. Physics

    Lessons from physics help reveal evidence for the body ferroelectric

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