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  1. Health & Medicine

    How the brain chooses sides

    A new study reveals where and how people decide which hand to use for a simple task.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Physics

    Being single a real drag for spores

    Launching thousands of gametes at once helps a fungus waft its offspring farther.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  3. Tech

    Tiny tools aren’t toys

    Enzyme-based machinery could have medical applications.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  4. Climate

    Annual Arctic ice minimum reached

    Melt isn’t as bad as 2007, but still reaches number three in the record books.

    By Alexandra Witze
  5. Humans

    Neandertals blasted out of existence, archaeologists propose

    An eruption may have wiped out Neandertals in Europe and western Asia, clearing the region for Stone Age Homo sapiens.