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  1. Physics

    Turning water to steam, no boiling required

    A new material can convert water into steam with sunlight alone, and could be useful for making fresh water from salty.

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  2. Life

    Typhoid toxin aids survival in mice

    A DNA-damaging bacterial protein may prolong the lives of infected animals.

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  3. Astronomy

    Key sugar needed for life could have formed in space

    Sugar that forms backbone of cell machinery can form on icy grains blasted by ultraviolet light from young stars.

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  4. Astronomy

    Possible source of high-energy neutrino reported

    Scientists may have found the cosmic birthplace of an ultra-high energy neutrino: a blazar 9 billion light years away.