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  1. Astronomy

    Distant Dust: Asteroid belt or boiling comet?

    A swarm of warm dust surrounding a star 41 light-years from Earth may be a sign of the closest extrasolar analog to the solar system's asteroid belt.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Physics

    Extreme Matter: Mother of all material flows into view

    By making an extremely hot and dense state of matter that, surprisingly, is a liquid, physicists say they may have finally created a sample of matter much like the primordial stuff that permeated the newborn universe and gave rise to all other matter.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Anthropology

    These spines were made for walking

    A new analysis of fossil backbones indicates that human ancestors living around 3 million years ago were able to walk much as people today do.