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  1. Climate

    Earth’s poles in peril

    Scientists are paying increased attention to changes in Earth's polar regions, which are in danger because of global warming.

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  2. Space

    Sun Beating

    When our sun was very young, a huge, exploding star roughed it up.

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  3. Brain

    Baby Talk

    Some infants can tell the difference between two languages just by looking at the speaker's face.

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  4. Animals

    Life on the Down Low

    The first scientific survey of organisms in the deep waters off Antarctica has discovered lots of life.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Don’t Eat That Sandwich!

    If you drop a sandwich on the floor, how quickly does it pick up bacteria?

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  6. Animals

    Little beetle, big horns

    Why do dung beetles have horns? Biologists sniff out some answers.

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  7. Space

    A great ball of fire

    Astronomers are marveling at what may be the hugest, most spectacular star explosion ever recorded.

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  8. Plants

    The Book of Life

    Work has begun on a Web site called the Encyclopedia of Life, which aims to catalog every species on Earth.

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  9. Planets

    Two Suns in the Sky

    Some planets may orbit double stars, which means that the planets might have double sunrises and double sunsets.

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  10. Tech

    How to Fly Like a Bat

    Everyone knows that bats aren't birds, but it turns out that they don't even fly the same way.

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  11. Brain

    Talking with Hands

    Studies of chimpanzees suggest that our ancestors may have "talked" to each other using hand gestures before they learned to speak.

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  12. Planets

    Liquid Mercury

    Our solar system's innermost planet has a molten core.

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