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  1. Astronomy

    Ring around the galaxy

    The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the largest number ever of elliptical galaxies with Einstein rings, a marker of gravitational lensing.

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  2. DNA Clues to Our Kind: Regulatory gene linked to human evolution

    A gene that exerts wide-ranging effects on the brain works harder in people than it does in chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates.

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  3. Danger Mouse: Deleting a gene transforms timid rodents into daredevils

    By removing one gene from a mouse's standard repertoire, scientists have turned a timid animal into an intrepid one.

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  4. Earth

    Nonstick Taints: Fluorochemicals are in us all

    A new federal study strongly suggests that all U.S.