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  1. Health & Medicine

    Improving the View: Treatment reverses macular degeneration

    People with the eye disease known as macular degeneration now have a better-than-average prospect of recovering some vision, thanks to a new drug that takes a lesson from an anticancer strategy.

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  2. Humans

    U.S. population to surpass 300 million

    At approximately the middle of October, the population of the United States will hit and then quickly eclipse 300 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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  3. Animals

    Krill kick up a storm of ocean mixing

    Scientists have measured living creatures' contribution to the stirring of ocean water, and they found that little kicking krill legs do a lot.

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  4. Animals

    Silky feet

    Zebra tarantulas can secrete silk from their feet, a feat that may help them better adhere to surfaces.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Cigarettes and lead linked to attention disorder

    Nearly half a million cases of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder among U.S. children are related to exposures to lead or their mothers' smoking while pregnant.

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  6. Astronomy

    Oversize supernova

    Researchers have found a supernova so luminous that it must have been produced by a much heavier star than the standard theory allows.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Bad Alzheimer’s proteins sow disorder in the brain

    Alzheimer's disease may start with a single abnormal protein that spoils other proteins nearby.

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  8. Earth

    Reading the tale of an ancient river

    Ocean-floor sediment near England holds material deposited during the last ice age by what was then Europe's largest river system.

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  9. Planetary Science

    A discordant name for a dwarf planet

    The largest known object at the fringes of the solar system, the icy body whose discovery heated up the debate about the nature of planethood, has an apt new name.

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  10. Animals

    Scent Stalking: Parasitic vine grows toward tomato odor

    A wiry orange vine finds plants to raid for nutrients by growing toward their smell. With video.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Mixed Bag: Islet-cell transplants offer good and bad news

    Most people who've received transplanted islet cells for type 1 diabetes still need daily insulin shots, but the transplanted cells curb blood sugar crashes.

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  12. Earth

    Gassy Bugs: Microbes may produce propane under the sea

    Microbes deep under the ocean's floor could be the source of some ethane and propane found in sediments.

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