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  1. Space

    NASA picks shuttles’ retirement homes

    Museums in New York, California, Florida and Virginia will display the four spacecraft after their final mission in June.

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  2. Science & Society

    An update on scientific integrity

    New administration rules are a step in the right direction, but much work remains, says a watchdog group.

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  3. Earth

    Great quake one of the biggest ever in Japan

    BLOG: Magnitude-8.9 tremor will go down in seismology’s record books

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  4. Space

    Meteorites may hold fossils from space — or not

    Skepticism greets claim that three space rocks may contain microfossils of extraterrestrial bacteria.

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  5. Life

    Arkansas birds died of trauma

    Necropsies suggest loud noises caused panic, killing thousands.

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  6. Physics

    Size of a proton? Really small

    But physicists can't agree on one number.

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  7. Science & Society

    E.T.? No. Arsenic? Yes. Maybe. Hmmm.

    NASA's bacterium news sparks criticism.

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  8. Space

    LHC switching gears

    The premier European collider will spend the next month smashing lead nuclei together.

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  9. Life

    Bee mystery not over yet

    News reports overstate recent findings.

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  10. Humans

    Swedish academy awards

    As Nobel season opens, one researcher looks back on a century of steadily increasing U.S. dominance.

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  11. Climate

    Annual Arctic ice minimum reached

    Melt isn’t as bad as 2007, but still reaches number three in the record books.

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  12. Computing

    Most influential media Twitter feeds

    Computer scientists find surprises when they rank top 100.

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