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  1. Space

    About-face: A look at the moon’s farside

    Researchers have for the first time mapped the gravitational field of the moon’s farside — the lunar half that is permanently turned away from Earth.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Health & Medicine

    Bigger rewards boost tobacco quit rate

    Smokers who are offered several hundred dollars are three times as likely to quit as those offered no reward.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Life

    Darwin: The reluctant mathematician

    Despite disliking mathematics, the great biologist inadvertently advanced statistics.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  4. Life

    Duplication in genomes may separate humans from apes

    A sudden peak in duplication of chunks of DNA in the common ancestor of humans, chimps and gorillas led to genetic flexibility, which created differences among the species.