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‘Mars Rover Curiosity’ chronicles robot's journey

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Engineer Rob Manning recounts the decade of victories and\nsetbacks that preceded Curiosity’s landing on Mars.
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Second stop planned for mission to Pluto

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Scientists identify three possible targets for the New\nHorizons probe after it visits the former planet.
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Brain Cells With Alzheimer's Disease Grown in a Petri\nDish

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There’s a new tool for researchers in pursuit of a cure for\nAlzheimer’s disease: lab-grown brains. For the first time,\nneuroscientists from Massachusetts General Hospital have grown\nfunctioning human brain cells that develop Alzheimer’s disease in a\npetri dish. The breakthrough offers researchers a new method to\ntest cures and decipher the origins of the disease. Dishing up\nAlzheimer’s To be clear, a fully functioning brain is not what’s\ngrown in the lab. Rather, what results is a culture
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Feedback

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Readers discuss methods to prevent sepsis and whether genes\nare thrifty, while Tina Saey clears up some confusion regarding\nEbola's airborne status.
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Comet-crazed, and for good reason

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Coming to the edge of knowledge, especially about what’s out\nin space, fires the imagination.
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Rosetta readies for its close rendezvous with a comet

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The Rosetta spacecraft and its lander Philae are ready to\nmake history in a risky rendezvous with comet\n67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Microbes can redeem themselves to fight disease

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With some genetic engineering, bacteria can morph from bad to\ngood and help attack invading cancer cells.
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In science, popularity breeds unreliability

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Popularity can mean unreliability both in science news\ncoverage and within research itself.
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New particle could help physicists understand subatomic\nglue

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A newfound particle will allow scientists to probe the\nuniverse’s strongest force.
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Hearing awful or great singing changes birds’ choice

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A male bird’s serenade inspires reactions that depend on the\nquality of songs a female has been listening to.
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People Are More Swayed by Things That Look Sciencey

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Anyone who's paged through a women's magazine will recognize\nthis strategy: to make a product seem better, surround it with a\nscientific glow. \"Clinical trials show lashes grow up to 400%\nfuller!\" \"27% reduction of dark spots in 10 weeks!\" \"Ceramides!\"\nDoes this actually help convince people to hand over their cash? A\nstudy using promotions for fake drugs suggests that might be the\ncase. \"Graphs equal truthiness,\" says Aner Tal, a  researcher\nat Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab. \"Tha
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Giant Storm Rocks North Atlantic Like a Hurricane

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As attention focuses on Hurricane Gonzalo, now expected\nto batter Bermuda on Friday, a truly gargantuan storm that roiled\nthe North Atlantic with hurricane strength winds earlier this week\nhas, well, slipped through the cracks. You can see it in the image\nabove, acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite on Wednesday. Although\nits fierce winds spanned a significant portion of the North\nAtlantic Ocean, churning the waters so violently that waves towered\nas high as 50 feet, it had no name. That
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Cosmic jets re-created in a lab

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Physicists have recreated in a lab the plasma jets that erupt\nfrom young stars and black holes.
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Inherited Memories: Too Good To Be True?

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In December last year, researchers Brian Dias and Kerry\nRessler made a splash with a paper seeming to show that memories\ncan be inherited. This article, published in Nature Neuroscience,\nreported that if adult mice are taught to be afraid of a particular\nsmell, then their children will also fear it. Which is pretty wild.\nEpigenetics was proposed as the mechanism. Now, however,\npsychologist Gregory Francis says that the data Dias and Ressler\npublished are just too good to be true: Too much
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Will We Have Nuclear Fusion Reactors Within a Decade?

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Lockheed Martin Corp. on Wednesday said its engineers had\nmade a breakthrough in the race to build a nuclear fusion\nreactor. The company’s secretive research unit, Skunk Works, claims\nthat within a decade it’ll develop and deploy a nuclear fusion\nreactor that’s powerful enough to light over 80,000 homes, yet\nsmall enough to fit in the back of a truck. If the company\nsucceeds, it would mark a major milestone in mankind’s pursuit of a\nviable nuclear fusion power source. Nuclear Fusion’s Allure
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Crystallography celebrates centennial

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Dubbed the international year of crystallography, 2014 marks\nthe centennial of X-ray diffraction.
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Poop-transplant pills treat intestinal infection

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Frozen capsules stuffed with healthy gut bacteria from\ndonated poop fight C. difficile infections.
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Surprises lurk inside a Saturn moon

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft finds possible ocean or\nfootball-shaped core inside Mimas.
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Jet lag affects gut microbes

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Jet-lagged bacteria in the gut impair mice’s metabolism,\ncausing obesity and diabetes-related problems.
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As Tropical Storm Ana Heads Toward Hawaii, Hurricane Gonzalo\n— a \"Monster\" Storm — Guns for Bermuda

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The storms just keep on coming. Earlier this week, Typhoon\nVongfong whacked Japan and Tropical Cyclone Hudhud slammed into\nIndia. With maximum sustained winds of 135 miles per hour, Hudhud\nleft at least 22 dead and caused much mayhem. Oh, and did I mention\nTropical Storm Fay, which knocked out power to much of Bermuda last\nweekend? Now, we've got Tropical Storm Ana in the Pacific, which is\nheading toward Hawaii, and Hurricane Gonzalo in the Atlantic taking\naim on Bermuda — and perha
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