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  1. 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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  2. Health & Medicine

    Even moderate noise may harm hearing

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

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Physics

    Lessons from physics help reveal evidence for the body ferroelectric

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  7. Retinal implants could restore partial vision

    In lab tests on rat retinas, a photovoltaic chip helps display images through special goggles.

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  8. Life

    Genes may influence body’s bacteria

    Specific DNA variants have been found to be associated with the types of microbes that colonize a person’s body.

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  9. Life

    Gene appears linked with a person’s daily rhythms

    Variations could play a role in determining time of death, or help shift workers better adapt.

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  10. Humans

    Maya wall calendar discovered

    Classic-era structure displays rare calculations of lunar and planetary cycles.

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  11. Astronomy

    Sun’s shock wave goes missing

    Spacecraft observations redraw astronomers’ ideas about the local stellar environment.

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  12. Life

    Culture results when chimps get cracking

    Adjacent groups in Africa follow different traditions when it comes to opening nuts.

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