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  1. Earth

    Arctic Ocean hosts weird freshwater pond

    Odd, persistent winds prevent river inputs from mixing with the sea.

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  2. Earth

    AGU conference on climate and civilizations

    Ancient trash piles yield Everglades trees, plus 'green' Vikings and more in meeting news.

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  3. Earth

    A matter of gravity

    A new map of Earth’s gravitational field is the sharpest ever acquired.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Breast milk may harbor cancer clues

    Analysis could provide a noninvasive means for testing risk in women, an early-stage study shows.

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  5. Humans

    Brain’s mirror system loves the robot

    Experiments that shed light on how the "monkey see, monkey do" part works may suggest why we feel sad for Wall-E.

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  6. Book Review: The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard Panek

    Review by Ron Cowen.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Heart drug may fight prostate cancer

    Digitalis inhibits the common malignancy in lab tests, and long-term users are less likely to develop the disease, a study shows.

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  8. Life

    Worries grow over monarch butterflies

    Migrants overwintering in Mexico rebounded somewhat this past winter, but still trending downward.

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  9. Humans

    Humans

    Money can buy happiness if you know what you're doing, plus argumentative kids and good gifts in this week's news.

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  10. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    A new way to fold a paper bag, plus good apples and designer silk in this week’s news.

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  11. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    A new explanation of cold northeast winters, plus shrinking newborns and the Russian heat wave in this week’s news.

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  12. Physics

    Remodeling the standard model

    Physicists could be on the verge of discovering a new elementary particle, studies at a U.S. accelerator suggest.

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