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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Buckyballs may abound in space, plus the latest on planets and solar siblings in this week's news.

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  2. Space

    The best next space missions

    The National Research Council issues recommendations for planetary science projects that NASA and NSF should fund starting in 2013.

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  3. Space

    Stellar wormholes may exist

    Tunnels through spacetime would connect pairs of stars, new simulations suggest.

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  4. Space

    A bid to implode cosmic ray theory

    Streams of fast-moving particles aren’t fueled just by supernovas, a new study suggests.

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  5. Space

    Sun’s doldrums likely to last

    Despite a recent flare, solar physicists project low activity for up to a decade.

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  6. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Scientists calculate the right mix of dark matter to build a galaxy, plus Kleopatra’s twins and an electric Encaledus in this week’s news.

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  7. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    New measurements give the farthest look yet into the universe, plus more in this week's news.

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  8. Space

    ‘Deep Impact’ comet revisited

    NASA takes pictures of Tempel 1 five years after shooting it with a probe.

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  9. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Jupiter's bold stripe is back, plus more in this week's news.

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  10. Space

    Black holes take light for a spin

    Reseearchers say they have found a way to directly observe the existence of spinning black holes.

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  11. Space

    Milky Way munched on galactic snack

    The galaxy appears to have gobbled up stars from another galaxy 700 million years ago, and may still have an appetite.

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  12. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    How the moon got its water, plus more in this week’s news.

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