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  1. Life

    One small step for a snail, one giant leap for snailkind

    Experiments suggest that gastropods shed their shells in one fell swoop during the evolutionary transition that created slugs.

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  2. Animals

    Argonauts use shells as flotation devices

    The octopus relatives create their own buoyancy devices by gulping and hoarding air from the surface.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Getting to the bottom of diabetes and kidney disease

    Renal cells called podocytes may need insulin to maintain tissues’ blood-filtration role, a study in mice finds.

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  4. Humans wonder, anybody home?

    Brain structure and circuitry offer clues to consciousness in nonmammals.

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  5. Life

    Tortoise see, tortoise do

    Though they rarely meet, solitary creatures can pick up skills by example.

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  6. Ecosystems

    Sharks use math to hunt

    Marine predators cruise the seas using fractal principles.

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  7. Life

    Fruit fly bodies bank stem cells

    Stem cells carve their own niches.

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  8. Chemistry

    Changing charges make for squid rainbow

    Study finds how proteins self assemble in the cells of Loligo squid to reflect different wavelengths of light

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  9. Materials Science

    Breakup doesn’t keep hydrogel down

    Scientists create a new material that is strong, soft and self-healing.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    One Downside to Sushi

    Uncooked fish can host detectable concentrations of potentially toxic chemicals — pollutants that cooking can make disappear,

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  11. Venom hunters

    Scientists probe toxins, revealing the healing powers of biochemical weapons.

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  12. Earth

    Deep sea viruses are an unexpected ringer

    Deep-sea vent waters harbor high numbers virus-carrying bacteria. The viruses may actually help the bacteria survive the harsh vent environments.

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