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  1. BOOK REVIEW: Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes by Bill McGuire

    Review by Alexandra Witze.

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  2. The Hot and Cold of Priming

    Psychologists are divided on whether unnoticed cues can influence behavior.

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  3. Traces of Inaugural Life

    Geologists, biologists join forces to tell new stories about the first cells on Earth.

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  4. Secret of a Lifetime

    How long a neutron lives holds clues to the cosmos.

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  5. Psychology

    When good moods go decisively bad

    Positive feelings may lead seniors to weigh fewer options and make poorer choices in some situations.

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  6. Humans

    Crime numbers may mislead

    Criminologists argue that city safety rankings should consider underreporting and other sources of error in compiling statistics.

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  7. Astronomy

    Sounds on distant worlds

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  8. Earth

    Study keeps pace with Greenland glaciers

    Herky-jerky motion of the island’s ice suggests that melting ice is unlikely to contribute to dramatic sea level rise this century, but the news isn’t all good.

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  9. Astronomy

    A star is torn

    A black hole’s stellar feast is witnessed by telescopes on Earth and in orbit.

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  10. Astronomy

    Ancient scribes may have banked on blinking binary

    For the Egyptians, luck may have been written in the Demon Star.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Protein tweak may trigger Alzheimer’s

    An unusual version of the disease-linked amyloid-beta molecule sows destruction in mouse brains.

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  12. Life

    Controversial flu research published

    One of two papers detailing airborne H5N1 experiments is released.

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