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  1. Earth

    Subglacial lakes flood, glaciers speed up

    Floods that occasionally surge from immense lakes trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet can significantly affect the flow rate of overlying glaciers, a new study shows.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Health & Medicine

    Feed your brain: News from neuroscience

    Highlights from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting held in Washington, D.C.

    By Science News
  3. Health & Medicine

    Neandertals, gut microbes and mail-order ancestry tests

    Geneticists weigh in during the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Space

    Misplaced muons either mundane or monumental

    During an experiment in Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator, a group of elementary particles called muons showed up in a strange place.