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  1. Health & Medicine

    New twists for phantom limbs

    An experiment explores the connections between brain and body.

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  2. Fossils

    The paleontologist and the three dinosaurs

    Skulls thought to be from three different dinosaurs may actually be from the same dino type at three different ages.

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  3. Planets

    One ring around them all

    Introducing the solar system's largest known ring around a planet.

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  4. Fossils

    The bug that may have killed a dinosaur

    The holes in the jaw bone of a world-famous T. Rex suggest the dino died from a parasite infection.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Junk food junkies

    Rats on a junk food diet behave like drug addicts.

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  6. Animals

    Giant snakes invading North America

    A new government study suggests the United States may see pythons in Pennsylvania by 2100.

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  7. Tech

    Batteries built by viruses

    Scientists use microbes to create tiny power supplies.

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  8. Chemistry

    The secret life of fruit flies

    Scientists find that the most attractive scent for a fruit fly is no scent at all.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    The taste of bubbles

    Taste cell for sourness senses fizz, too.

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  10. Fossils

    Three strikes wiped out woolly mammoths

    Giant mammals went extinct thanks to climate, comet and people.

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  11. Environment

    Flu river

    Rivers polluted with Tamiflu could help a resistant flu strain develop in birds.

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  12. Humans

    Meet your mysterious relative

    Ardi climbed trees and walked on two legs 4.4 million years ago.

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