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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Wheat genome announcement turns out to be small beer
The DNA sequence released by U.K. team still requires assembly.
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- Humans
Protecting innocent — and not so innocent — bystanders
Technique removes pedestrians from Google Street View images.
- Physics
Blog: Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle still certain
Despite rumors to the contrary, a mainstay of quantum physics is just as (un)certain as ever.
- Astronomy
Heftiest stars discovered
At more than 200 times sun’s mass, this giant sets a new record.
- Plants
Explosions, mushroom clouds — all good for short moss
BLOG: Sphagnum reproduces with a bang that compensates for life so close to the ground.
- Health & Medicine
Critics point to flaws in longevity study
BLOG: A study showing a genetic basis for exceptionally long life in humans has come under fire from critics.
- Planetary Science
Up close and personal with an asteroid
The Rosetta orbiter makes its second swing past a relic of the early solar system.
- Space
Astronomers stoke cosmic debate
Astronomers from the United Kingdom have published papers criticizing some of the evidence used to support theories of dark matter and energy.
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Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission lands in Australia
Capsule recovered, scientists will soon know what the probe collected.
- Earth
Operation Icewatch 2010 gears up
Climate experts turn their gaze north to monitor this summer's Arctic melt.
- Planetary Science
Hubble hunting for Jupiter bruise
No scar found yet on planet from June 3 crash with unidentified object.
