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  1. Earth

    Earth & Environment

    Cities can break up passing storms, plus wild boar contamination, altered spider sense and more in this week’s news.

  2. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Gene therapy for dogs, plus an HIV gatekeeper and new neurons from skin in this week’s news.

  3. American Society for Microbiology meeting

    Cell phones may change your skin bacteria, plus greenhouse microbes and feather-eating bacteria in this week’s news.

  4. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Cancer treatment raises stroke risk, plus ankle-powered sprints, irregular heartbeats and more in this week’s news.

  5. Life

    Life

    A look at killer dolphins, plus hibernating plankton, growing mammal brains and more in this week’s news.

  6. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    A cosmic collision heard ‘round the world, plus Saturn storms, black hole drains and more in this week’s news.

  7. Humans

    Humans

    Right is right for righties, plus trading for better decisions and the human spread to Arabia in this week’s news.

  8. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Finding materials harder than diamond, plus spintronic devices, wrinkle physics and more in this week's news.

  9. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Earth’s iron heart can melt, plus Atlantic weather and more ice thinning in this week’s news.

  10. From the Archive

    In the late 1950s, roughly half the astronomers who voted on whether the universe began with a Big Bang said “No.”

  11. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Coffee may help protect against prostate cancer, plus protecting organ transplants and limiting HIV transmission in this week’s news.

  12. Space

    Dark Matter meeting

    The latest science reveals few new answers on dark matter, but scientists hope for more from the Large Hadron Collider.