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  1. Health & Medicine

    Catching a Cancer

    The official figure for the percentage of human cancers caused by viruses is around 20 percent — but most experts concede that number is largely an educated guess

    By Laura Beil
  2. Particle Physics

    Nature’s secrets foretold

    After decades of searching, it seems scientists have found the elusive Higgs boson.

    By Tom Siegfried
  3. Health & Medicine

    Cartilage Creation

    New joint tissue could keep people moving, reducing need for knee or hip replacements.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Planetary Science

    Planetary Peekaboo

    Astronomers aren’t playing games when it comes to spotting an exoEarth.

    By Nadia Drake
  5. Life

    Nouveaux Antennas

    A single hairlike appendage may allow a cell to sense the outside world

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  6. Astronomy

    Prospecting for Quasicrystals

    Siberian journey nets a mineralogical space oddity.

    By Nadia Drake

  7. Science News Top 25

    Science News reviews the year in science with a compilation and analysis of the most fascinating stories reported in the magazine. Also highlighted are reader favorites, debunked science and the year's weirdest stories.

    By Science News

  8. Polar bears have seen hard times

    Two genetic studies extend the Arctic icon’s lineage way back.

    By Susan Milius
  9. Health & Medicine

    Little Mind Benders

    Parasites that sneak into the brain may alter your behavior and health.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Animals

    A Different Kind of Smart

    Animals’ cognitive shortcomings are as revealing as their genius.

    By Susan Milius
  11. Physics

    Hard times for theorists in a post-Higgs world

    The Large Hadron Collider’s big success leaves no clear avenue for new physics.

    By Andrew Grant
  12. Earth

    Life under ice

    Lake Vostok may harbor ingredients for a complex subglacial ecosystem.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg