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  1. Health & Medicine

    Laptops and infertility: It matters how you sit

    Men who keep their legs together while using the computers generate more sperm-endangering scrotal heat than those who splay them, a study finds.

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  2. Space

    Milky Way’s black hole may blow bubbles

    Astronomers have discovered two giant blobs of gamma ray–emitting gas above and below the galaxy’s center.

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  3. Animals

    Acidification may halve coral class of 2050

    Already shown to be a threat to established reefs, experiments show that changing ocean chemistry also threatens the establishment and survival of larvae.

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  4. Earth

    Mining the maritime past for clues to climate’s future

    Researchers collect data through a mashup of 19th century ship records and 21st century crowdsourcing.