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  1. Humans

    An unusual budget cycle

    The first Obama budget rolled out slowly and in atypical fashion.

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  2. Paleontology

    Ancient fish with killer bite

    Dunkleosteus clamped down on prey with three-quarters-of-a-ton bite force.

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  3. Space

    Last Hubble rendezvous

    During five successful space walks, astronauts repaired and rejuvenated the Hubble Space Telescope.

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  4. Archaeology

    Stone Age figurine has contentious origins

    A new study suggests that an ivory female figurine from Germany dates to at least 35,000 years ago, but that conclusion has sparked debate over the Stone Age origins of figurative art.

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  5. Life

    It’s not their dirty mouths

    Komodo dragons kill prey with venom, not oral bacteria, study suggests.