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  1. Life

    An oceanic endeavor

    Marine census catalogs creatures that roam all corners of the seas.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Life

    The unusual suspects

    With no obvious culprit in sight, geneticists do broader sweeps to identify autism’s causes.

    By Susan Gaidos
  3. Life

    Imperfect mimics

    Reprogramming techniques may not produce exact embryonic stem cell replicas.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Astronomy

    Black hole silhouettes

    Scientists attempt to image a shadow and its tumultuous ring.

    By Charles Petit

  5. Unnatural selection

    Chemists build proteins with parts not in the typical toolkit.

    By Laura Beil

  6. Fire & Ice

    Volcanoes and frozen lands make an explosive combo.

    By Alexandra Witze

  7. Rust Never Sleeps

    A new flare-up in an age-old battle between wheat and a fungal killer.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg

  8. A New View of Gravity

    Entropy and information may be crucial concepts for explaining roots of familiar force.

    By Tom Siegfried

  9. In field or backyard, frogs face threats

    Amphibians and other sensitive groups encounter chemicals across the landscape.

    By Susan Milius

  10. DNA on the move

    The latest advances from the field of DNA nanotechnology include nanobot ‘spiders’ learning how to walk and even do some work.

    By Gwyneth Dickey

  11. A matter of solidity

    A material that oozes through itself presents a super physics puzzle.

    By Alexandra Witze
  12. Earth

    Scour power

    Big storms shift coastal erosion into overdrive.

    By Sid Perkins