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  1. Space

    Black hole jets in HD

    Images of unprecedented resolution offer insight into how black holes swallow up matter.

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  2. Tech

    Information flow can reveal dirty deeds

    An analysis of Enron e-mails reveals that corrupt networks have a distinctive shape.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    A year adds up to big changes in brain

    Third grade brings big shifts in how kids use their heads to solve math problems.

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  4. Physics

    Light created from the void

    An international team of physicists confirms a long-held theory about the quantum energy that fills empty space.

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  5. Life

    Genes & Cells

    European scientists object to genetic testing, plus triggers for Alzheimer’s and asthma in this week’s news.

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  6. Humans

    Association for Psychological Science meeting

    News includes likeable look-alikes, seeing clearer through meditation and bouncing back from bad events.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Inside Job

    Teams of microbes pull strings in the human body.

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  8. Humans

    Counterfeit Crackdown

    New scientific tools help tell fake meds from the real thing.

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  9. Space

    Good-bye Shuttle

    Looking back at the space plane’s scientific legacy

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  10. Book Review: Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  11. Book Review: For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time – A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics by Walter Lewin, with Warren Goldstein

    Review by Devin Powell.

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  12. A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer

    The engaging essays in this slim volume are chock-full of information about viruses, from the common cold to smallpox. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011, 109 p., $20.

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