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  1. Psychology

    Sadness response strengthens with age

    Older people reacted more strongly to sad scenes than twentysomethings did in a recent study of emotional receptivity.

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  2. Life

    Lemurs on contraceptives don’t smell right

    Birth control disrupts female odors used in mating and other social situations.

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  3. Earth

    Trailing dust devils

    Whirlwinds leave dark paths behind by sucking sand grains clean.

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  4. Life

    Genetics redraws marsupial family tree

    A new analysis traces the group’s origin to South America.

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  5. Materials Science

    Erasing wrinkles, the physicists’ way

    Researchers study how folds and other creases disappear.