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  1. Animals

    Insects Take a Breather

    Many types of insects appear to control how much oxygen they take in.

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  2. Tech

    Chocolate Rules

    Scientists unravel the mysteries of what makes chocolate yummy and even good for you.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Lost Sight, Found Sound

    Brain areas devoted to vision can take on other duties following loss of sight.

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  4. Plants

    How a Venus Flytrap Snaps Shut

    A Venus flytrap stores energy to allow its hinged leaves to snap shut quickly.

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  5. Space

    Black hole journey

    Research on weird, invisible objects called black holes might help explain how the universe began.

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  6. Planets

    Unveiling Titan

    A space probe that landed on Saturn's frigid moon Titan found a landscape that looks a lot like Earth.

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  7. Tech

    Musclebots Take Some Steps

    Researchers have let loose scores of walking micromachines made from heart muscle.

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  8. Environment

    The wolf and the cow

    Can livestock and predators share the same land?

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  9. Fossils

    Dino takeout for mammals

    Ancient mammals dined on young dinosaurs.

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  10. Animals

    Tool use comes naturally to crows

    Certain crows appear to be born with an instinct to make and use tools.

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  11. Earth

    Wave of destruction

    The recent Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the most deadly and destructive natural disasters in modern times.

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  12. Earth

    Digging into a tsunami disaster

    A powerful earthquake under the Indian Ocean changed Earth's surface and spin.

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