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  1. Humans

    The Next Generation: Intel Science Talent Search honors high school achievers

    A 17-year-old from Oklahoma City who built a homemade Raman spectra system took first place at this year's Intel Science Talent Search.

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  2. New Memory Manager: DNA silencer also controls memory formation

    A surprising finding links memory formation to a process of shutting down genes in growing embryos.

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  3. Animals

    It’s a Girl: Atlantic mystery squid undergoes scrutiny

    To scientists' surprise, a huge, deep-sea, gelatinous squid formerly reported only in the Pacific Ocean has turned up half a world away.

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  4. Astronomy

    First Family: Pluto-size body has siblings

    Astronomers have found the first family of objects in the Kuiper belt, a remote outpost of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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  5. Physics

    Warming Up to Criticality: Quantum change, one bubble at a time

    Physicists can now observe matter as it gradually turns into a Bose-Einstein condensate—the exotic state of matter that displays quantum behavior at macroscopic scales.

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  6. Anthropology

    Ancient Slow Growth: Fossil teeth show roots of human development

    An extended period of childhood evolved in people at least 160,000 years ago.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Brain Fix: Stem cells supply missing enzyme

    Brain stem cells implanted into sick mice restored a missing enzyme and extended life span by 70 percent.

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  8. Earth

    Hey, it’s cooler near the sprinklers

    Extensive agricultural irrigation can significantly affect local climate and may be masking the effects of global warming in some areas.

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  9. Tech

    EPA council sets priorities

    The Environmental Protection Agency's Science Policy Council has outlined the agency's nanotechnology-research needs.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Emerging bug pilfers DNA

    A virulent bacterium invading U.S. hospitals and the battlefields of the Middle East pilfers its genes from other bacteria.

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  11. Chemistry

    Scrubbing troubles

    Triclosan, an antibacterial agent found in many soaps, may increase a person's exposure to a potentially toxic chemical.

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  12. Earth

    Hibernation concentrates chemicals

    Some pollutants accumulate in grizzlies during the bears' hibernation.

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