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  1. Health & Medicine

    The Human Brainome Project

    Obama announces ambitious plan to develop new tools for exploring neural circuitry.

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  2. Tech

    Ignition Failed

    How America’s latest attempt at fusion power fizzled.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Dose of Reality

    HPV is epidemic, which is odd since it is largely preventable.

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  4. Physics

    As Erebus Lives and Breathes

    The Antarctica volcano’s long-lived lava lake coughs up clues to the physiology of volcanoes .

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  5. Genetics

    From Great Grandma to You

    Epigenetic changes reach down through the generations.

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  6. Earth

    Quakes in Slo-Mo

    Barely detectable tremors may portend major destruction.

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  7. Humans

    Of Mice and Man

    The lab mouse is being remodeled to better mimic how humans respond to disease.

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  8. Humans

    A Cancer Patient’s Best Friend

    Similarities between tumors in people and dogs mean canine studies can inform human disease.

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  9. Tech

    The 3-D Printing Revolution

    Using a technique known as 3-D printing, regular people can now make goods typically produced in huge quantities in factories overseas.

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  10. Science & Society

    No New Meds

    With drug firms in retreat, the pipeline for new psychiatric medications dries up.

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  11. Earth

    Salvage Job

    With fertilizer prices skyrocketing, scientists scramble to recover phosphorus from waste.

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  12. Chemistry

    Disorder at Work

    Proteins without a definite shape can still take on important jobs.

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