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  1. Life

    Marine microbes fritter away jelly bonus

    Bacterial feasts during jellyfish blooms drain valuable carbon out of the food web.

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  2. Chemistry

    Heat Beaters

    Scientists seek enzymes that don’t mind working at high temperatures.

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  3. Earth

    Making Waves

    Japanese quake gave scientists an unprecedented look at a big tsunami.

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  4. Life

    Dolphin may sense the body electric

    Organs on the species' snout help it detect faint fields, like those generated by prey.

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  5. SN Online

    Highlights from recent online-only stories

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  6. As Told By the Egg

    The story of fertilization, from the female point of view.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    A good massage can help, plus bed nets for babies, sugar counteracts fish and more in this week's news.

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  8. Earth

    Eels point to suffocating Gulf floor

    In June, scientists predicted that the Gulf of Mexico’s annual dead zone — a subsea region where the water contains too little oxygen to support life — might develop into the biggest ever. In fact, that didn’t happen. Owing to the fortuitous arrival of stormy weather, this year’s dead zone peaked at about 6,800 square miles, scientists reported on Aug. 1 — big but far from the record behemoth of 9,500 square miles that had been mentioned as distinctly possible.

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  9. Science Future for June 4, 2011

    June 27 Go behind the scenes of Houston’s Cockrell Butterfly Center. Go to https://store.hmns.org July 15–17 Swim with the world’s largest fish at the fourth annual Whale Shark Festival in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. More information at www.whalesharkfest.com

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  10. Earth

    The facts behind the frack

    The gas, primarily methane, is cheap and relatively clean. Because America is brimful of the stuff, harvesting the fuel via fracking could provide the country jobs and reduce its dependence on foreign sources of energy.

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  11. Life

    Genes & Cells

    A boost for tired antibiotics, plus a fishy mom’s mucus and high-gravity microbes in this week’s news.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Fish oil fails to hold off heart arrhythmia

    Atrial fibrillation patients who took capsules rich in omega-3 fatty acids had about as many episodes as those getting a placebo, a study finds.

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