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  1. Violent Justice: Adult system fails young offenders

    Laws that allow people under age 18 to be tried and imprisoned as adults have unintended effects, promoting an increase in new violent offenses among youth handled by the adult justice system.

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  2. Planetary Science

    Little Enceladus disturbs Saturn’s magnetic field

    Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus is acting as a brake on the giant planet's magnetic field.

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  3. Physics

    Tiny particles baffle physicists, again

    An experiment failed to confirm the existence of a new elementary particle called the sterile neutrino, but its results could still point to some new physics.

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  4. Earth

    On the rocks

    New research explains why a cancer-causing form of chromium has been turning up in ground and surface waters far from industrial sources.