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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Life

    How to trap sperm

    Lab-made beads can trick and trap sperm, potentially preventing pregnancy or selecting sperm for fertility treatments.

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  2. Tech

    High-fashion goes high-tech in ‘#techstyle’

    ‘#techstyle,’ an exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, considers how technological innovations such as 3-D printing are influencing fashion.

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  3. Archaeology

    Lasers unveil secrets and mysteries of Angkor Wat

    The world’s largest temple, Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, was revealed by laser and radar studies to be part of a sprawling medieval metropolis.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Machine makes drugs on demand

    A new drug-making system rapidly produces a variety of medications on demand.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Fridge-sized contraption makes drugs on demand

    A new drug-making system rapidly produces a variety of medications on demand.

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  6. Animals

    These cyborg beetles walk the walk

    New beetle biobots come with speed and gait control.

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  7. Animals

    Cyborg beetles walk the walk

    New beetle biobots come with speed and gait control.

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  8. Tech

    A storm of tweets followed Superstorm Sandy’s path

    When storms hit, people hunker down and tweet. Their social media activity tracks natural disasters and their damage, a new study shows.

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  9. Physics

    New type of catalyst could aid hydrogen fuel

    A substance that can switch states might make an efficient catalyst for extracting hydrogen from water.

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  10. Tech

    Computer program bests world champion 4-1 in strategy game Go

    Google DeepMind’s Go-playing computer program AlphaGo has topped Lee Sedol, the world’s reigning Go player, in a five-game match in South Korea.

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  11. Materials Science

    New process encourages ice to slip, slide away

    Researchers discover new process for making durable ice-phobic materials.

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  12. Tech

    Computer takes first game in match against Go world champion

    The computer program AlphaGo takes the lead in a five-match challenge of the strategy game Go.

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