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  1. Space

    Deep-space dancers

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

    By Stephen Ornes
  2. Animals

    Newly named fish crawls and hops

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

    By Stephen Ornes
  3. Health & Medicine

    The metal detector in your mouth

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

    By Stephen Ornes
  4. Space

    Watching deep-space fireworks

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

    By Stephen Ornes
  5. Animals

    Sponges’ secret weapon

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

    By Stephen Ornes
  6. Environment

    Getting the dirt on carbon

    The circle of life continues thanks to the carbon cycle.

    By Susan Gaidos
  7. Tech

    Supergoo to the rescue

    The absorbent stuff in diapers may help clean up after a terrorist attack.

    By Stephen Ornes
  8. Health & Medicine

    Greener Diet

    The planet is getting warmer, and what we eat isn’t helping.

    By Stephen Ornes
  9. Physics

    See Comet Lulin

    By Stephen Ornes
  10. Animals

    Brainy bees know two from three

    Honeybees can match patterns by number.

    By Liz Savage
  11. Health & Medicine

    Contemplating thought

    Your brain is more complex than a computer, but the two are similar.

    By Susan Gaidos
  12. Planets

    Either Martians or Mars has gas

    Martian methane points to possible life on the Red Planet.

    By Stephen Ornes
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