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  1. Animals

    Baboons detect bogus words

    Some monkeys know a real word when they see it.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Switching cough off

    Researchers find possible solution to the nagging problem of how to curb a cough.

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  3. Young scientists’ ‘outside’ lives

    Science fair finalists include firefighters, musicians and even magicians.

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  4. Genetics

    Sniffing out truffle scent

    Genetics, not geography, plays key role in the aroma of the delicacy.

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  5. Earth

    Big quake, little destruction

    A large earthquake rattles Indonesia without unleashing a damaging tsunami.

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  6. Fossils

    Fluffysaurus

    Newfound fossils belong to giant feathered dinosaurs.

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  7. Teacher’s Questions for Hobbits

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  8. Archaeology

    Hobbits: Our tiny cousins

    Skeletal remains of ancient human relatives found in Indonesia are challenging some long-accepted “truths” about human evolution.

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  9. Space

    Martian devil

    Giant whirlwind photographed as it snakes its way across a plain in northern Mars

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  10. Animals

    Animal buddies

    Humans aren’t the only animals that benefit from friends.

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  11. Competing with math

    Five high schoolers are the new faces of mathematics.

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  12. Space

    ‘Ruler’ to measure space

    Study of energy waves formed during the Big Bang supports Einstein’s prediction that a strange, invisible force is pushing the universe apart.

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