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  1. The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear by Kieran Mulvaney

    Starting with the fact that polar bears have black skin, this book offers surprises and up-to-date information about the Arctic’s iconic top predator. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, 251 p., $26.

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  2. Space

    More like Faux-malhaut b

    The Spitzer Space Telescope fails to find a visible planet circling where Hubble saw one four years ago.

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  3. Life

    Carnivores can lose sweet genes

    A gene involved in taste detection has glitches in some, but not all, highly carnivorous mammals.

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  4. Physics

    Plants’ reproductive weaponry unfurled

    Botanical tricks include adhesion and bubbles to spread their spores into the environment.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Little Mind Benders

    Parasites that sneak into the brain may alter your behavior and health.

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  6. Humans

    What’s in your wallet? Another ‘estrogen’

    A chemical cousin of bisphenol A, a hormone mimic, has turned up on banknotes from around the world in addition to tainting 14 other types of papery products. Owing to the near ubiquity of BPS in paper, human exposure is likely also “ubiquitous,” conclude the study's authors. Oh, and a second new study shows that BPS behaves like an estrogen.

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  7. Life

    Fossil pushes back land-animal debut

    Creatures first squished mud through their five toes millions of years earlier than previously believed.

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  8. Space

    Vesta seems more planet than asteroid

    Spacecraft explorations reveal a layered, beat-up celestial body.

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  9. Astronomy

    Prospecting for Quasicrystals

    Siberian journey nets a mineralogical space oddity.

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  10. Life

    Treatment helps paralyzed rats walk

    A combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and therapy can restore lost connections between lower limbs and brain.

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  11. Particle Physics

    Nature’s secrets foretold

    After decades of searching, it seems scientists have found the elusive Higgs boson.

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  12. Life

    Nouveaux Antennas

    A single hairlike appendage may allow a cell to sense the outside world

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