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  1. American Society for Microbiology meeting

    Cell phones may change your skin bacteria, plus greenhouse microbes and feather-eating bacteria in this week’s news.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Cancer treatment raises stroke risk, plus ankle-powered sprints, irregular heartbeats and more in this week’s news.

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  3. Physics

    What it means to ‘feel the noise’

    Scientists investigating the nexus between sound and touch suggest that the ear arose from skin.

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  4. Earth

    Hawaii heat source debated

    A pancake, not a plume, may fuel the island chain’s volcanoes.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Bacterial meningitis keeps falling

    Vaccination against a strep bacterium and other microbes has proved a potent deterrent over the past decade, a nationwide survey shows.

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  6. Space

    Survey captures local universe in 3-D

    The most complete view to date of the nearby cosmos takes in 45,000 galaxies.

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  7. Life

    Life

    A look at killer dolphins, plus hibernating plankton, growing mammal brains and more in this week’s news.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Clues to autism’s roots from brain study

    A new analysis finds differences in genetic activity, especially in genes controlling nerve cell form and function.

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  9. Life

    Hey kitty, dogs drink like cats

    High-speed video shows that canines don’t simply scoop up water, they toss it into their mouths just like their feline frenemies.

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  10. Physics

    Gators go a-courtin’ with fancy physics

    Their subsonic mating bellows generate Faraday waves, a phenomenon almost never seen outside the lab.

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  11. Earth

    Germy with a chance of hail

    Aerial microbes can trigger precipitation and may influence global warming.

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  12. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    A cosmic collision heard ‘round the world, plus Saturn storms, black hole drains and more in this week’s news.

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