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  1. Tech

    Trading places

    As the pace of financial transactions accelerates, researchers look forward to a time when the only limiting factor is the speed of light.

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  2. Life

    Supersizing pumpkins

    Engineers gain insight into the extreme growth of gargantuan gourds.

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  3. Space

    Revealing the galaxy’s dark side

    Observations of the Milky Way’s center detect gamma rays characteristic of the universe’s missing mass.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    The fingers don’t lie

    The brain has at least two copy editors, typing experiments show.

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  5. Humans

    Deep African roots for toolmaking method

    A method for trimming stone-tool edges appeared 75,000 years ago in southern Africa, archaeologists contend, long before previous evidence of the practice.