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  1. Health & Medicine

    Of fish and brain health

    Moms-to-be who eat a diet rich in the right fish may pass along benefits to their children

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  2. Microbes

    A slime with memory

    Even without a brain, this slime mold knows where it’s been.

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  3. Pathways to research: Young scientists tackle abstract problems

    Students’ independent, theoretical investigations produce real-world results

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  4. Chemistry

    Harder than diamonds?

    Researchers create new material that may be world’s hardest.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    The 2012 Nobel Prizes

    Annual awards go to research on cells, atoms and light.

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  6. Planets

    Curiosity’s watery find

    Mars rover finds rocks that show where water once flowed.

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  7. Brain

    The teenage brain

    Adolescence triggers brain — and behavioral — changes that few kids or adults understand.

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  8. Teacher’s Questions for The Teenage Brain

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  9. Earth

    Earth’s big breakup

    Powerful motions beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a series of earthquakes near Sumatra.

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  10. Tech

    Color-changing robot

    Tiny tunnels within the “skin” of a robot allow it to blend in with or stand out from its surroundings.

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  11. Microbes

    Bacteria learn new trick

    Scientists show evolution in action in decades-long E. coli study.

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  12. Teacher’s Questions for Old Germs

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