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  1. Health & Medicine

    Treating peanut allergy bit by bit

    New study offers a little hope in reducing an allergy to peanuts, but don't try this at home.

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  2. Space

    The most popular stars

    Dwarf stars come in many colors, and aren't so small after all

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  3. Brain

    Reading a mind’s memories

    By looking at patterns on brain scans, scientists can "see" where a person has been.

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  4. Animals

    Bringing fish back up to size

    Changing the way we fish may help rescue a population's shrinking fish.

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  5. Animals

    Pondering the puzzling platypus

    Scientists are studying the mixed-up looking mammal for clues to animal ancestry.

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  6. Animals

    Fish needs see-through head

    Barreleye peers out at the world like a fighter pilot does through a windshield.

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  7. Space

    Deep-space dancers

    In a galaxy far, far away, black holes are spinning around each other.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    The metal detector in your mouth

    The taste of metal is sweet, spicy, bitter, delicious and perhaps other, mystery tastes.

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  9. Animals

    Newly named fish crawls and hops

    Crazy-colored, flat-faced fish does more than swim.

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  10. Environment

    Getting the dirt on carbon

    The circle of life continues thanks to the carbon cycle.

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  11. Space

    Watching deep-space fireworks

    An orbiting telescope records the universe’s most powerful explosions.

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  12. Animals

    Sponges’ secret weapon

    An aquatic animal provides a possible new kind of disease resistance.

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