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  1. Life

    Suspect bacterium may trigger Parkinson’s

    A study in mice shows that H. pylori, the microbe that causes stomach ulcers, may also affect the brain.

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  2. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Finding materials harder than diamond, plus spintronic devices, wrinkle physics and more in this week's news.

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  3. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Earth’s iron heart can melt, plus Atlantic weather and more ice thinning in this week’s news.

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  4. Physics

    Rogue waves captured

    Re-creating tiny versions of these monster swells in a laboratory tank reveals their mathematical underpinnings.

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  5. From the Archive

    In the late 1950s, roughly half the astronomers who voted on whether the universe began with a Big Bang said “No.”