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  1. Health & Medicine

    Where funny faces come from

    Making a face might have helped human ancestors survive.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Girl athletes’ energy crisis

    Lack of regular periods in teenage female athletes stems from a hormone imbalance arising from inadequate energy intake.

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  3. Animals

    Squeaky chimp sex, or not

    Female chimps tend toward silent sex when the other girls could overhear.

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  4. Space

    Rocky cores form first

    A theorist says new extrasolar findings prove that the standard model of planet formation is correct.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Cooking cancer cells

    A new technique combining antibodies, carbon nanotubes and near-infrared light holds promise for treating malignancies, scientists report.

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  6. Archaeology

    Green reapers

    Agriculture's rise sparked widespread use of green stone beads as fertility charms and as protection against supernatural forces, scientists propose.

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  7. Planetary Science

    Surprise found in comet dust

    Scientists find an odd mineral that could offer clues to the solar system's origins.

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  8. Life

    Wine find

    Cell tests suggest that resveratrol, the substance that seems to account for the healthful effects of red wine, might have antiobesity effects, too.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Good news for coffeeholics

    When lifestyle factors like smoking were taken into account, coffee drinkers had lower death rates than their non-drinking peers, according to a study of more than 120,000 people.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Keep at it

    Moderate exercise can extend survival for overweight and obese men who have diabetes.

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  11. Astronomy

    Otherworldly triple play

    Astronomers have discovered the first known system of three superEarths beyond the solar system.

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  12. Astronomy

    Visions of dirt

    Phoenix Lander gets first close-up of Martian soil.

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