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  1. In the Zone

    Evolution may have trained the mind to see scoring streaks — even where they don't exist.

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  2. Cerebral Delights

    The amygdala, a part of the brain known for its role in fear, also helps people spot rewards — and go after them.

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  3. Better by Design

    Avoiding undesirable traits from the start could help chemists make molecules less meddlesome.

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  4. Star Cents

    How the cost of NASA’s next big space telescope skyrocketed.

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  5. Into orbit

    MESSENGER pays a yearlong visit to Mercury.

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  6. Astronomy

    Stellar oddballs

    Kepler spacecraft finds much more than exoplanets.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Healthy Aging in a Pill

    To extend life span, scientists envision a drug that mimics the benefits of a near-starvation diet.

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  8. Humans

    Simple Heresy

    Rules of thumb challenge complex financial analyses 

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  9. Physics

    Magnets trap neutrons for a lifetime

    A new device that uses magnets to trap neutrons may enable physicists to measure more precisely how quickly free neutrons decay, a time period with implications for understanding both the weak force and the early universe.

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  10. Math

    The squint method of data analysis

    Mathematicians discover a Klein bottle hidden within the data underlying photographs

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  11. U.S. science policy needs to heed global realities

    Comment by Steven Hyman, provost of Harvard University

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  12. Math

    The tell-tale anecdote

    An Edgar Allan Poe story reveals a flaw in game theory.

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