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  1. Humans

    No nuts for you, Nutcracker Man

    Tooth analysis shows huge-jawed hominid grazed on grasses and sedges.

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  2. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Groovy snake bites, buzzy microphones and coiling liquids in this week’s news.

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  3. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    How Antarctica got its ice, plus Chinese dust-ups and rising bird malaria in this week’s news.

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  4. Earth

    Grand Canyon born by continental lift

    A "drip" deep within the Earth may have raised the Colorado plateau to create the spectacular landscape of the U.S. Southwest.

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  5. Life

    Genes & Cells

    A boost for tired antibiotics, plus a fishy mom’s mucus and high-gravity microbes in this week’s news.

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  6. Earth

    With warming, Arctic is losing ground

    Scientists anticipate big ecosystem changes as erosion spills nutrients into the sea

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  7. Space

    Former planet may have grown a tail

    Pluto appears to trail a cometlike cloud of gas.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    A genetic cause for small brains, heart links to HIV and calcium, and more in this week’s news.

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  9. Life

    Zap! More fish

    An upgraded brain underlies the wide diversity in a family of electric fish, scientists say.

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  10. Earth

    Currents reach deep for seafloor larvae

    Surface waters circulate more than a mile down, transporting organisms between distant ocean-bottom habitats.

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  11. Tech

    Nanotubes coming to a screen near you

    New technology promises brighter, bigger display screens that use less energy.

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  12. Life

    Antarctic humpbacks make a krill killing

    Late-arriving sea ice enhances crustacean feast for whales, but the bounty may be fleeting.

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