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We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Health & Medicine

    Malaria vaccine closer to reality

    The success of two trials sets the stage for a final, large-scale trial that could mean approval of what would be the first vaccine against Malaria.

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  2. Animals

    Dogs will go on strike over unfair treats

    Equal sausage demanded for equal paw shakes.

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  3. Space

    Meteorites could have thickened primordial soup

    New experiments show that extraterrestrial impacts that occurred early in our planet's history could have created the raw materials for life.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Honeybee CSI: Why dead bodies can’t be found

    Virus could explain one symptom of colony collapse.

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  5. Life

    Protect biodiversity hot spots and the rest will follow

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  6. Ecosystems

    Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton

    HarperCollins, 2008, 460 p., $28.95.

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  7. Life

    Fat cells also linked to prion infection

    Disease-causing misfolded proteins at home in a growing list of tissues, organs.

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  8. Life

    Spanish Inquisition couldn’t quash Moorish, Jewish genes

    Finding suggests modern history, not just prehistory, can leave a strong mark on a region’s genetic signature.

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  9. Life

    Funny smell may have split bee species

    Among male bees that create their own perfume, a change in the sense of smell might mean a split in species.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Protein found to set the heart’s cadence

    Researchers have discovered a molecular metronome that sets the rhythm of the heart and blood pressure.

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  11. Earth

    Antidepressants make for sad fish

    Fish may suffer substantially from even brief encounters with antidepressants, which wastewater releases into river water.

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  12. Animals

    Lizard push-ups grab attention

    Nearby lizards more likely to get the message if its preceded by push-ups

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