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  1. Materials Science

    Transparent Transistor: See-through component for flexible displays

    Transparent transistors deposited on flexible sheets of plastic could find their way into computer displays embedded in car windshields and other curved surfaces.

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  2. Seminal Discovery: Promiscuous females speed sperm evolution

    A gene responsible for semen viscosity has evolved more rapidly in primate species with promiscuous females than in monogamous species.

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  3. Earth

    Damp sandcastles

    What keeps the 500-meter-tall dunes of China's Badain Jaran desert immobile, despite arid, windy conditions, is a previously unknown source of groundwater.

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  4. Animals

    Color at Night: Geckos can distinguish hues by dim moonlight

    The first vertebrate to ace tests of color vision at low light levels—tests that people flunk—is an African gecko.