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  1. Life

    Supersizing pumpkins

    Engineers gain insight into the extreme growth of gargantuan gourds.

    By Alexandra Witze
  2. Space

    Revealing the galaxy’s dark side

    Observations of the Milky Way’s center detect gamma rays characteristic of the universe’s missing mass.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Health & Medicine

    The fingers don’t lie

    The brain has at least two copy editors, typing experiments show.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Humans

    Deep African roots for toolmaking method

    A method for trimming stone-tool edges appeared 75,000 years ago in southern Africa, archaeologists contend, long before previous evidence of the practice.

    By Bruce Bower
  5. Space

    Neutron star breaks mass record

    The new heavyweight champion in its stellar class rules out a number of exotic theories.