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  1. Animals

    Young insect legs have real meshing gears

    Tiny teeth on hiplike structures keep legs in sync, allowing juvenile planthoppers to jump.

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  2. Astronomy

    At last, Voyager 1 slips into interstellar space

    Solar blast data provides definitive evidence that Voyager 1 has cruised beyond the heliosphere and into interstellar space.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Vaccine stops deadly sand-fly-spread scourge in animal test

    A DNA vaccine triggers protection against the sand-fly-borne scourge Leishmania.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Szechuan pepper taps at nerve fibers

    The spice makes lips tingle at 50 beats per second, researchers find.

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  5. Microbes

    Horsetail spores don’t need legs to jump

    Forget legs.