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  1. Health & Medicine

    Drug Running: Bust nets suspects in counterfeit antimalaria trade

    Investigators have traced the source of counterfeit antimalarial pills in Southeast Asia to southern China, where suspects have been arrested and an illicit factory shut down.

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  2. Astronomy

    Going the Distance: Galaxies may hail from early universe

    Using a cosmic magnifying glass to peer into the deepest reaches of space, two teams of astronomers have discovered tiny galaxies that may be among the most distant known.

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  3. Animal Origins: Genome reveals early complexity

    Analysis of DNA from a choanoflagellate, the closest known living nonanimal relative of animals, allows scientists to infer the genetic starter kit possessed by the first animal.

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  4. Paleontology

    Flying Deaf? Earliest bats probably didn’t echolocate

    Fossils of a cardinal-sized creature recently unearthed in western Wyoming suggest that primitive bats developed the ability to fly before they could track their prey with biological sonar.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Caffeine intake tied to miscarriage

    Intake of caffeine equal to two cups of coffee per day seems to double a woman's risk of miscarriage.

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  6. Humans

    Heed your elders, survive a tsunami

    An oral tradition passed down among islanders in the South Pacific saved many lives during a tsunami last year and illustrates the benefits that community-based education and awareness programs can provide.

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  7. Tech

    Nanocrystal

    Researchers have used DNA as Velcro to create the first materials that spontaneously assemble into regular 3-D patterns.

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  8. Animals

    Bird fads weaken sexual selection

    There's a new look for a hot male among lark buntings every year.

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  9. More evidence that flies sleep like people

    A brain chemical puts fruit flies to sleep.

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    This article was wonderful. We have had light and electron microscopes. Can we look forward to atom-wave microscopes? Bill SchindeleThousand Oaks, Calif. Yes. A team led by Bodil Holst at Graz University of Technology in Austria has built a microscope that bombards a sample with helium waves and then measures how the waves reflect to […]

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  11. Physics

    Extreme Measures

    Physicists use atom interferometry to measure gravity and other forces with unrivaled precision, and the technique could potentially guide airplanes and uncover buried caches of oil and diamonds.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Weighty Evidence

    Connections between the family of insulin hormones and cancer have been suspected for more than 2 decades, and today, drug companies are testing anticancer drugs based on the actions of an insulin cousin.

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