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- Microbes
Microscopic caffeine fiends
Researchers create a bacterium that can’t live or reproduce without a stimulant found in soft drinks, chocolate, coffee and tea.
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- Environment
Fungi as carbon keepers
A common type of fungus stores most of a forest floor’s carbon underground.
- Life
Stem cells: The secret to change
Unusual, versatile cells hold the key to regrowing lost tissues.
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- Chemistry
Building a better battery
Researchers develop a way to make batteries that hold more charge and don’t weaken with age.
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When one question leads to another
Young scientists find advantages to pursuing related problems — sometimes for years on end.
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- Space
New, older age for the universe
Telescope peers back to see the first light after the Big Bang.
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- Planets
Out-of-this-world atmospheres
Light from a distant, giant world offers clues to the gases in its atmosphere.
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