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  1. Humans

    Rising seas made China’s ancient mariners

    Ancient environmental changes produced a maritime culture that colonized Taiwan 5,000 years ago, archaeologists contend.

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  2. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Traditional medicine helps give the slip to bacteria, plus insulin insensitivity and dental plaque in this week's news.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Thank your mom for your big brain, plus contagious itching and phobia therapy in this week’s news.

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  4. Humans

    Hidden dalliance revealed by X-rays

    A high-tech analysis uncovers a 19th century painter’s do-over.

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  5. Life

    Great-grandpa’s genes gone, effects stay

    Removing an obesity-preventing scrap of DNA from a mouse lineage doesn’t prevent descendants from reaping its slimming benefits for generations.

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  6. Humans

    Just breathing in Iraq can be hazardous

    Poor air quality is an added danger for troops, testing indicates.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    New drug boosts hepatitis C treatments

    An experimental medication has cleared a major hurdle and seems poised for FDA approval, two studies show.

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  8. Space

    First portraits of Mercury from orbit

    MESSENGER spacecraft to capture more than 1,500 images in three days.

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  9. Physics

    2011 American Physical Society meeting

    Powerful X-rays illuminate hidden messages from the past, plus Lyme disease sensors and graphene transistors in meeting news.

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  10. Physics

    2011 American Physical Society meeting

    Powerful X-rays illuminate hidden messages from the past, plus Lyme disease sensors and graphene transistors in meeting news.

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  11. Life

    Wasps airlift annoying ants

    In a scrap over food, being big and able to fly is an advantage.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Worms live longer with thioflavin T

    A dye commonly used by Alzheimer’s disease researchers to spot misshapen proteins gives lab nematodes longer lives, scientists say.

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