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  1. Cosmology

    Dark matter detector reports hints of WIMPs

    Experiment hundreds of meters underground detects three candidate signs of dark matter, though physicists are cautious about the finding.

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  2. Humans

    Group size affects racial makeup of friend groups

    Larger settings seem to promote segregation, simulation finds.

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  3. Humans

    Ardi’s kind had a skull fit for a hominid

    Study of reconstructed skull section puts 4.4-million-year-old species in human evolutionary family.

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  4. Earth

    Puny plastic particles mar Lake Erie’s waters

    Polymer particles in the lake carry pollutants.

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  5. Life

    New flu in China reveals its avian origins

    H7N9 influenza genes came from three bird viruses.