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  1. Planetary Science

    Tasting ice

    Phoenix Mars Lander drills for ice.

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  2. Ecosystems

    Tracing Tahitian vanilla

    The discovery of Tahitian vanilla’s heritage could set off a custody battle between nations.

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  3. Good mood gone bad

    Feeling happy may lessen children’s ability to perform tasks that require attention to detail, a new study suggests.

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  4. Life

    Hidden in plain view

    Looking for unwavering genes rather than standouts could reveal which genes contribute to disease.

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  5. Space

    First triple near-Earth asteroid found

    Astronomers have discovered the first known triple near-Earth asteroid.

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  6. Climate

    Hydrogen economy sustainable in 15 years

    Hydrogen fuel cells can eventually replace the combustion engine, but meanwhile a wider range of technologies will be needed to reduce carbon emissions.

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  7. Animals

    We all sing like fish

    From opera singers to toadfish, vertebrates may use basically similar circuitry for controlling vocal muscles.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    X-ray vision

    A new imaging technique could give scientists unprecedented views into cells and other objects at the nanoscale.

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  9. Space

    Icy asteroids

    New observations are further eroding the difference between asteroids and comets.

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  10. Animals

    Brains for a change

    Outsized brains may have sped up evolution of body size in birds.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Against the grains

    People on either a low-carbohydrate or Mediterranean diet fared better over two years than those on a low-fat diet.

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  12. Physics

    Seeing the smallest atom

    Electron microscopes can now image single atoms of hydrogen.

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