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  1. Physics

    Charging up fuel injection

    A new device uses an electric field to increase cars’ gas mileage.

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  2. Humans

    Genetic link to dyslexia

    Scientists studying a large group of British children find a link between a DNA sequence that contains a gene involved in brain development and a range of reading problems, including dyslexia.

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  3. Space

    No naked black holes

    In a simulated merger, astrophysicists tried to push the boundaries of two black holes into shedding their event horizons. But the resulting black hole was still shrouded by its event horizon, through which even light can’t escape.

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  4. Earth

    A near-record Arctic melting

    This summer, the area covered by Arctic sea ice dropped to its second-lowest since satellite measurements began in 1979.