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  1. Health & Medicine

    How the brain chooses sides

    A new study reveals where and how people decide which hand to use for a simple task.

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  2. Physics

    Being single a real drag for spores

    Launching thousands of gametes at once helps a fungus waft its offspring farther.

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  3. Tech

    Tiny tools aren’t toys

    Enzyme-based machinery could have medical applications.

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  4. Climate

    Annual Arctic ice minimum reached

    Melt isn’t as bad as 2007, but still reaches number three in the record books.

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  5. Humans

    Neandertals blasted out of existence, archaeologists propose

    An eruption may have wiped out Neandertals in Europe and western Asia, clearing the region for Stone Age Homo sapiens.

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  6. Space

    Glowing auroras ring Saturn

    A new movie documents changes in Saturn’s lights over nearly two days on the planet.

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  7. Space

    Particles in cahoots

    Physicists have discovered curious connections in subatomic debris produced by the world’s largest particle collider.

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  8. Life

    Lone Star cats rescue cousins in Sunshine State

    Florida panther numbers have tripled since the introduction of females from Texas injected vital genetic diversity, a new report says.

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  9. Tech

    Everything really is relative

    Two tabletop experiments demonstrate the time-warping principle at the human scale.

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  10. Earth

    Gulf spill may have been somewhat bigger than feds, BP estimated

    Researchers estimate the oil output using a new technique developed for measuring the output of marine hydrothermal vents.

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  11. Life

    X-rays in 3-D show nanosized details

    A new X-ray microscope technique peers inside materials to reveal their inner nature.

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  12. Humans

    Clues to child sacrifices found in Inca building

    Children killed in elaborate rituals were drawn from all over the South American empire, new research suggests.

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