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  1. Life

    Life

    Colorful duck bills hint at sperm quality, plus dangerous jellies and throwback bees in this week’s news.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Experimental Biology 2011 conference

    Even larvae can love the blues, plus distemper’s roots, fat-busting blueberries and more meeting news.

  3. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    How to hunt for extraterrestrials, plus cosmic bursts, horseshoe orbits and more in this week’s news.

  4. Anthropology

    American Association of Physical Anthropologists

    Hobbit dentistry, ancient footprints and navigating gibbons in news from the recent physical anthropology meeting.

  5. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    A quantum state is teleported, plus twisty light and foamy graphene in this week's news.

  6. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Breakfast may help get the lead out, plus burrowing trilobites and warmer truffles in this week's news

  7. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    A hidden herpes risk, the rapid effects of a high-fat diet, explaining seniors' early rising and more in this week's news.

  8. Life

    Life

    Salamander's algal partners, tool-using capuchins, a beneficial bacterial infection and more in this week's news

  9. Cosmic Questions additional references

    Books: Brian Green. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. Knopf 2011. Read the review. Marcia Bartusiak. The Day We Found the Universe. Pantheon 2009. Read the review. Richard Panek. The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt […]

  10. Mission: reveal the secrets of the universe

    The Objective For millennia, people have turned to the heavens in search of clues to nature’s mysteries. Truth seekers from ages past to the present day have found that the Earth is not the center of the universe, that countless galaxies dot the abyss of space, that an unknown form of matter and dark forces […]

  11. Tools for the mission

    Hunting data A number of instruments now operating or proposed can troll the skies or otherwise help to answer some of the most puzzling questions about the universe. Planck  A European Space Agency observatory launched in 2009, Planck is recording a more detailed picture of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation left over from […]

  12. Science & Society

    Humans

    Western views of fat adopted around the world, a link between a messy environment and stereotypes, and more in this week's news