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  1. Humans

    The undeciders

    A country’s development seems tied to the size of its executive cabinet, and a mathematical model helps explain why.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Sticky when wet

    An improved way to make the sticky protein that mussels use to cling to underwater rocks could lead to better cardiac stents.

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  3. Space

    A special place

    Two proposed studies might determine whether dark energy is real or humans live in a special place in the cosmos

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  4. Lost and found

    Former child soldiers in Africa often adjust well to community life if they receive group rehabilitation and community acceptance, studies indicate

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  5. Life

    Duckbill decoded

    With a mix of reptilian, bird and mammalian features, the duck-billed platypus genome looks as strange as the animal.