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  1. Health & Medicine

    Fused cells hold promise of cancer vaccines

    A vaccine composed of tumor cells fused to immune cells has helped several people survive advanced kidney cancer.

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  2. Drugs order bacteria to commit suicide

    Seeking to explain how antibiotics work, scientists find a protein that commands bacteria to kill themselves.

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  3. 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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  4. Neuroscience

    It’s written all over your face

    To potential mates, your mug may reveal more than you think.

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  5. Microbes

    Team spirit

    Working together, bacteria and other microbes can accomplish much more than they can alone. Now scientists hope to harness that ability by engineering their own microbial consortia.

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  6. Earth

    The Hunt for Habitable Planets

    Here and now, a new suite of small telescopes are poised to look for Earthlike planets beyond the solar system.

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  7. The decider

    Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula.

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  8. Chemistry

    Silk

    Mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers.

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  9. Astronomy

    Dead — but not duds

    White dwarfs shed light on physics and the fate of the cosmos.

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  10. Life

    Sting Operation

    Scientists use bees and wasps to sniff out the illicit and the dangerous.

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  11. Physics

    It’s Likely That Times Are Changing

    A century ago, mathematician Hermann Minkowski famously merged space with time, establishing a new foundation for physics; today physicists are rethinking how the two should fit together

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  12. Potent Promise: Essential Stemness

    Scientists move closer to understanding the dual fates of embryonic stem cells — to divide or develop.

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