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  1. Health & Medicine

    Digestive Disease meeting

    Obesity therapy for toddlers, plus digestive issues in athletes, carbs during pregnancy and more from Digestive Disease week 2011.

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  2. Life

    Animals quickly colonized freshwater

    Fossilized worm burrows show that life had moved beyond the oceans by 530 million years ago.

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  3. Humans

    Humans

    Music keeps the mind sharp, plus chimp self-recognition, bullying's bodily effects and more in this week's news.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Food/Nutrition

    Losing weight with chocolate, plus deep-fried dioxins, edible sunscreens and more in this week's news

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Unnoticed celiac disease worth treating

    People who have an antibody reaction to gluten but no outward symptoms are better off if they avoid grains containing the protein, a study shows.

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  6. Psychology

    Autism rates head up

    Disorders may affect more kids than previously thought, a study in South Korea suggests.

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  7. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    A moth with chemical weapons, light-up bubbles and insidious fungi in this week’s news.

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  8. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    So much for the man-sized snail, plus Indonesia’s quake risk, overheated reefs and more in this week’s news.

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  9. SN Online

    DELETED SCENES BLOG A leaked LHC study sparks hubbub, but physicists stay skeptical of a particle find. See “Rumors of a Higgs discovery are just that.” EARTH Eyjafjallajökull spit super-sharp ash. Read “Volcanic ash gets its close-up.” LIFE Brain evolution preceded a diversity boom in one electricity-emitting fish. Read “Zap! More fish.” GENES & CELLS […]

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  10. Physics

    American Physical Society meeting

    Gas sheds light on dark matter, plus cosmic ray clusters and blue-light imaging in the news.

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  11. Life

    Fungus strikes but doesn’t kill European bats

    Organism that is devastating North American populations might have coevolved with hosts overseas.

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  12. Let Them Eat Shrimp: The Tragic Disappearance of the Rainforests of the Sea by Kennedy Warne

    For anyone wondering just what the heck “rainforests of the sea” might be, they’re the world’s largely unsung, highly imperiled, biologically fabulous coastal forests of mangroves. And it’s a telling point that the word mangroves does not appear on the cover of a book devoted to their marvels and troubles. LET THEM EAT SHRIMP: THE […]

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