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  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. Space

    Universe has more entropy than thought

    New calculations suggest that the cosmos is more disorderly than thought and is a bit closer to heat death.

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  4. Chemistry

    Flowerless plants make fancy amber

    A new analysis suggests that ancient seed plants made a version of the fossilized resin credited to more modern relatives

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  5. Life

    Mitochondria behind life span extension

    Study in flies suggests low-protein diet works through power-producing organelles.