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  1. Physics

    Built for Speed: Novel transistor design spurns limits

    The novel design of what's now the world's fastest transistor opens the possibility of even speedier devices that could operate as fast as a trillion cycles per second.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Astronomy

    Cosmic Primitive: Old star sheds light on early stellar formation

    Astronomers have found one of the most chemically primitive stars known, dating to just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Anthropology

    Stone Age Cutups: Deathly rituals emerge at Neandertal site

    A new analysis of 130,000-year-old fossils found in a Croatian cave a century ago suggests that Neandertals ritually cut up corpses of their comrades and perhaps engaged in cannibalism.