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Physics

As the icicle turns

Drip by drip, a new machine freezes out an existing theory.

Space

Twinkle, twinkle, little dot

A faint object was once thought to be the first extrasolar planet to be photographed. Then it wasn’t. But now it may go down in the history books after all.

Tech

The people’s pulsar

Thousands of volunteers help discover a neutron star by donating the processing power in their idle home computers.

Life

New titi monkey, at last

Travel risks in parts of Colombia had kept primatologists out for decades.

Health & Medicine

Delivering a knockout

Scientists have finally succeeded in genetically engineering rats.