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  1. Humans

    Human mutation rate slower than thought

    First direct measurements show that the number of genetic typos inherited from each parent can be highly skewed toward either mom or dad.

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  2. Tech

    New technique spins superlong nanowires

    Made from any number of materials, fibers are millionths of a millimeter across and kilometers long.

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  3. Physics

    It lives and lases

    A glowing cell can produce laser light.

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  4. Life

    Diving spiders make their own gills

    Eurasian diving bell spiders, the only truly aquatic arachnids, survive underwater with the help of “physical gills,” scientists say.

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  5. Chemistry

    Water-air interface barely there

    The transition between gas and liquid is an extremely insubstantial affair.