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  1. Computing

    Minifridge makes quantum computers last

    A new study shows that if ions are kept cool, then the information they hold can be repeatedly manipulated.

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  2. Book Review: The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak

    Review by Elizabeth Quill.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Vaccine could protect against virus that causes birth defects

    An experimental vaccine against cytomegalovirus has the ability to prevent infection half the time it’s administered, suggesting the vaccine might prevent birth defects the virus can cause.

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  4. Earth

    Erosion, on the down low

    Experiments show how microscopic fungi attack minerals to begin the erosion process.

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  5. Anthropology

    Stone Age twining unraveled

    Plant fibers excavated at a cave in western Asia suggest that people there made twine more than 30,000 years ago.

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  6. Life

    Death-grip fungus made me do it

    Infection may be driving ants to set their jaws in low-hanging leaves before they die.

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  7. Book Review: Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness by Alva Noë

    Review by Bruce Bower.

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  8. In Pursuit of the Briefest Beat

    Attosecond pulses of light could open electrons’ fast-paced world.

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  9. Humans

    Beefy hormones: New routes of exposure

    On any given day, some 750,000 U.S feedlots are beefing up between 11 million and 14 million head of cattle. The vast majority of these animals will receive muscle-building steroids — hormones they will eventually excrete into the environment. But traditional notions about where those biologically active pollutants end up may need substantial revising, several new studies find.

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  10. Chemistry

    Deadly mushroom toxin exposed

    Researchers have isolated and identified a muscle-destroying compound in some mushrooms.

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  11. Physics

    Shifting nanoparticles cause creep

    Study investigates how concrete deforms over time

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  12. Archaeology

    Stone Age flutes found in Germany

    Excavations in Germany have unearthed what may be the oldest known musical instruments.

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