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  1. Health & Medicine

    Rapid spread of Zika virus in the Americas raises alarm

    After blazing through Brazil, a mosquito-borne virus called Zika, which may cause birth defects, is now poised to jump to the United States.

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  2. Paleontology

    12 amazing fossil finds of 2015

    From an ancient sponge ancestor to the Carolina Butcher, scientists learned a lot about life on Earth this year.

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  3. Animals

    Cougars may provide a net benefit to humans

    Cougars have disappeared from the eastern United States. If they returned, they’d kill deer, preventing many car crashes, scientists find.

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  4. Animals

    Some animals ‘see’ the world through oddball eyes

    Purple urchins, aka crawling eyeballs, are just one of several bizarre visual systems broadening scientists’ view of what makes an eye.

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  5. Quantum Physics

    Ultrasmall engines bend second law of thermodynamics

    Car engines and batteries run because of the second law of thermodynamics, which appears to work, with just a little bending, for ultrasmall engines in the quantum realm as well.

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  6. Animals

    On the importance of elephant poop

    Asian elephants are key dispersers for tree seeds. A new study finds that buffalo and cattle can also disperse the seeds, but not nearly as well.

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  7. Animals

    First known venomous frogs stab with toxin-dripping lip spikes

    Two Brazilian frogs jab foes with venoms more deadly than pit vipers'.

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  8. Animals

    Rock-wielding monkeys make adjustments when cracking nuts

    Videos show that monkeys carefully pound open nuts to avoid smashing kernels inside.

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  9. Genetics

    Chemical tags on DNA appear to differ between gay and straight men

    DNA marks distinguished homosexual men from heterosexual men with in a small twin study.

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  10. Animals

    Apes do the darndest things

    Several chimp behaviors have researchers wondering if apes are a good model for early hominid life.

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  11. Animals

    Rainforest frogs flourish with artificial homes

    A rainforest frog population grew by about 50 percent when scientists built pools for tadpoles that mimic puddles made by other animals.

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  12. Ecosystems

    ‘Earth: A New Wild’ puts people in the picture

    PBS nature series ‘Earth: A New Wild’ shows humans living with, and not off, their environments

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