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  1. Tech

    Crystal clear

    Growing nanowires directly on a crystal might lead to high-density memory chips and transparent LEDs

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  2. Math

    Net advantage

    When damaged, networks that seem resilient can still become inefficient to the point of being unusable.

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  3. Astronomy

    One star, five planets

    With the discovery of a fifth planet circling the nearby star 55 Cancri, astronomers have found the most abundant—and heaviest—planetary system beyond the sun's.

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  4. Eastern farms have native-bee insurance

    If honeybees somehow vanished, the pockets of wild land in the Delaware Valley still harbor enough native bees to fill in and do the tough job of pollinating watermelon farms.