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  1. Animals

    Delivering a little snake venom

    Poisonous snakes may control the amount of venom that they inject.

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  2. Space

    Intruder Alert: Sweeping Space for Dust

    The solar system is filling up with stardust three times faster than it was 6 years ago.

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  3. Humans

    Of Lice and Old Clothes

    The history of lice hints that people started wearing clothes regularly about 70,000 years ago.

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  4. Tech

    Tinkering With the Basic Bike

    Turning a bicycle into a blender, and making it go faster and farther with less effort.

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  5. Space

    Big galaxy swallows little galaxy

    Astronomers find a convincing case of a large galaxy caught in the act of eating a smaller one.

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  6. Computing

    It’s a Small E-mail World After All

    It takes roughly half a dozen e-mail links to reach just about any other person in the world.

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  7. Genetics

    Baby swaps, crime scenes, and DNA testing

    By looking at animal DNA, investigators are solving crimes and conservationists are helping save endangered species.

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  8. Space

    Sky Dust Keeps Falling on Your Head

    Dust raining down from space and Earth's atmosphere provides information about weather patterns, pollution, and the origin of the universe.

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  9. Animals

    Like mother, like daughter

    Scientists have for the first time created a horse by cloning.

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  10. Humans

    A human migration fueled by dung?

    When people crossed from Asia to the Americas thousands of years ago, burning dung may have kept them warm.

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  11. Chemistry

    Worm Jaws Have Metal Power

    Studying the jaws of marine worms may lead scientists to better ways of making synthetic materials.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Speedy Gene Gives Runners a Boost

    A gene known as ACTN3 may influence whether athletes are better suited to sprinting or to endurance running.

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