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  1. Anthropology

    Thigh bone adds to mystery over 14,000-year-old Homo species

    Controversial Chinese leg fossil may point to hybrid humans 14,000 years ago.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    To treat the heart, start with the gut

    Preventing gut bacteria from making certain chemical compounds reduced artery clogging in mice, researchers report.

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  3. Science & Society

    Links between scrapie and MS less likely

    Five decades later, scientists still puzzle over what causes multiple sclerosis.

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  4. Science & Society

    Reader favorites of 2015

    Science News' online readership sometimes surprised us with their clicking habits this year.

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  5. Science & Society

    Surprises at new frontier trump a tool’s potential power

    Because it highlighted discovery at its most basic, Pluto won our No. 1 spot in the top 25 science news stories of 2015.

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  6. Animals

    Male monkeys go rouge for mating season

    Bright red lip color separates players from bachelors during monkey mating season.

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  7. Life

    For water bears, the glass is all full

    When dried, water bears turn into glass.

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  8. Animals

    Algal toxin impairs sea lion memory

    California sea lions that have brain damage linked to domoic acid poisoning have impaired spatial memory, a new study finds.

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  9. Life

    In the body, cells move like flocks of birds or schools of fish

    Cells move in groups similarly to flocks of birds and schools of fish

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  10. Neuroscience

    Mini microscope is a window into live muscle tissue

    A tiny microscope offers unprecedented views of live human muscles.

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  11. Particle Physics

    LHC restart provides tantalizing hints of a possible new particle

    The first comprehensive analyses of the recently restarted Large Hadron Collider yields no clear-cut discoveries but at least one intriguing hint of a new particle.

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  12. Planetary Science

    Ancient Mars’ weather report: Continued cold and dry

    The assortment of water-carved features on the Martian surface suggest that ancient Mars was cold and fairly dry, not warm and wet.

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