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  1. Tech

    Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work with light

    Charles K. Kao wins for discoveries enabling fiber-optic communication, and Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith win for inventing the charge-coupled device

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Space

    Inspecting an asteroid that hit Earth

    Researchers have analyzed fragments from 2008 TC3, the first asteroid ever tracked during its descent.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Psychology

    Joint attention provides clues to autism and cooperation

    Psychologists and philosophers convene to discuss the roots of shared knowledge at a meeting in Waltham, Mass.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Health & Medicine

    Nobel in medicine honors discoveries of telomeres and telomerase

    Three scientists share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of telomeres, which protect the ends of chromosomes, and the enzyme telomerase, which adds the structures to the ends of chromosomes.