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  1. Science & Society

    2010 Nobels recognize potential of basic science to shape the world

    Prizes go to IVF, graphene and ‘carbon chemistry at its best’

    By Nathan Seppa, Laura Sanders and Rachel Ehrenberg
  2. Life

    One small step for a snail, one giant leap for snailkind

    Experiments suggest that gastropods shed their shells in one fell swoop during the evolutionary transition that created slugs.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg

  3. Cosmic dioramas

    Metamaterials may offer windows into other worlds.

    By Elizabeth Quill
  4. Life

    An oceanic endeavor

    Marine census catalogs creatures that roam all corners of the seas.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Space

    Life may have started sky high

    Simulations of the atmosphere on Saturn’s moon Titan suggest that basic chemical ingredients could have formed far above early Earth.