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  1. Animals

    Winged robots may shed light on fly aerobatics

    After years of trying, researchers create flapping machines that can hover and perform rudimentary flight maneuvers.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Allergy, asthma less frequent in foreign-born kids in U.S.

    But protection from some immune conditions fades after a decade, a study finds.

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  3. Humans

    Cannibalism in Colonial America comes to life

    Researchers have found the first skeletal evidence that starving colonists ate their own.

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  4. Physics

    Counting cracks in glass gives speed of projectile

    There is a simple relationship between an object's velocity and the number of spokes it leaves in a dinged windshield or fractured windowpane.