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  1. 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.

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  2. Space

    Neutron star breaks mass record

    The new heavyweight champion in its stellar class rules out a number of exotic theories.

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  3. Tech

    Mind over machine

    People control a computer through electrodes implanted in their brains.

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  4. Life

    1000 Genomes pilot a hit with geneticists

    The first stage of a project to probe human genetic diversity has found millions of new variations.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Pancreatic cancer years in the making

    A decade elapses from the first cancer-related mutation to tumor formation, and several more years pass until the disease spreads to other organs, a new study finds.