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  1. Earth

    Ozone hole at smallest size in decades

    Warm Antarctic temperatures help preserve UV-protecting layer.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    An enlightened idea

    Technique lights up neurons at work in living animals.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Same neurons at work in sleep and under anesthesia

    Drugs boost activity in nerve cells that usually induce a slumber.

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  4. Astronomy

    Violent birth proposed for Saturn’s moon mishmash

    A simulation suggests that giant collisions created Titan and the planet’s many smaller satellites.

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  5. Humans

    Shoulder fossil may put Lucy’s kind up a tree

    Fossils of an ancient child suggest the more than 3-million-year-old hominid mixed climbing with walking.