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  1. Animals

    Brainy bees know two from three

    Honeybees can match patterns by number.

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  2. Planets

    Either Martians or Mars has gas

    Martian methane points to possible life on the Red Planet.

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  3. Animals

    When Darwin got sick of feathers

    The man who started evolutionary biology had some bad moments over a bird.

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  4. Plants

    The man who rocked biology to its core

    Two hundred years later, Charles Darwin's ideas still live on.

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  5. Microbes

    Hitting the redo button on evolution

    Scientists are experimenting with bacteria to see if evolution plays out the same way every time.

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  6. Fossils

    Invisible fossils of the first animals

    Though the first animals on Earth didn’t leave behind rock fossils, scientists can still find these ancient creatures by observing their invisible molecular fossils.

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  7. Earth

    Antarctica warms, which threatens penguins

    Unexpected rates of warming threaten to change Antarctica and pose a threat to the survival of some of its penguins.

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  8. Earth

    Science loses out when ice caps melt

    Tropical glaciers are vanishing at an especially rapid pace—and taking valuable climate records with them.

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  9. Math

    Calculating crime

    New math tools could help cops find robbers.

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  10. Physics

    Earth from the inside out

    An invisible particle sheds light on the mysterious interior of the Earth.

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  11. Animals

    Mosquito duets

    Bugs sing sweet nothings to each other.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Face values

    Researchers are uncovering what makes a mug attractive.

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