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  1. Health & Medicine

    Ear pain, weight gain

    Scientists have found a link between frequent childhood ear infections and obesity later in life.

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  2. Physics

    Explainer: The particle zoo

    Various subatomic particle types are compared to how they oddly relate to animals in a zoo.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Homework blues

    A good mood may not be so great for school work.

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  4. Earth

    Where rivers run uphill

    Three scientists travel to Antarctica to explore a secret world hidden beneath the ice.

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  5. Brain

    Girls are cool for school

    Preschool boys perform better in classes where the girls outnumber them.

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  6. Climate

    In Antarctica watch the heat (and your step)

    Behind the scenes: news detective.

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  7. Planets

    The two faces of Mars

    A single impact might explain why the Red Planet’s surface looks smoother in the north and rugged and rocky in the south.

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  8. Physics

    IceCube science

    To find some of the smallest things in the universe, scientists have to think big.

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  9. Animals

    Mice sense each other’s fear

    Scientists have figured out how mice use their noses to sniff out fear in other mice.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Yummy bugs

    Eating insects is a common practice in most places, at least outside of the United States and Europe.

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  11. Animals

    The tiniest serpent

    The smallest species of snake ever discovered lives on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

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  12. Planets

    Icy red planet

    Mission to Mars finds water ice.

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