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  1. Earth

    Salvage Job

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

    By Roberta Kwok
  2. Chemistry

    Disorder at Work

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

    By Tanya Lewis
  3. Humans

    Urban Eyes

    Too much time spent indoors may be behind a surge in nearsightedness.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Life

    Group to Group

    Wild chimpanzees pick up ant-fishing behavior from a female immigrant.

    By Erin Wayman
  5. Health & Medicine

    Little Mind Benders

    Parasites that sneak into the brain may alter your behavior and health.

    By Susan Milius
  6. Physics

    Heart of the Matter

    Neutrinos’ shifty behavior might help explain why the universe has so much stuff in it.

    By Charles Petit
  7. Genetics

    Factory of Life

    Synthetic biologists reinvent nature with parts, circuits.

    By Alexandra Witze
  8. Space

    Light in the Dark

    Scientists may be on the brink of identifying a mysterious form of matter.

    By Tom Siegfried

  9. Maya apocalypse goes boom

    World doesn’t end, ancient astronomy gets a boost.

    By Bruce Bower
  10. Environment

    Big drain on groundwater

    Overuse of freshwater supplies poses risks.

    By Science News

  11. Evolving E. coli

    25-year experiment sees real-time natural selection.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  12. Venus sails across sun in rare display

    Transit events happen in pairs separated by more than a century.

    By Meghan Rosen