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5 STORY ONE
s Using electricity, scientists
grow an eye in a frog’s gut
8 EARTH
s Precipitation patterns
influence geologic hazards
s Kilauea can get ugly
s Dead Sea went dry
s Deep-sea microbes make
electric currents
10 ATOM & COSMOS
s LHC gets whiffs of Higgs
s Storm chased across Saturn
s Planet well placed for life
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12 LIFE
s Early animal fossils have
200-million-year backstory
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20 SCIENCE NEWS OF THE YEAR
COVER STORY: Science News
editors and writers survey the
top news from the world of
science in 2011.
20 Science & Society
22 Atom & Cosmos
23 Nutrition
24 Molecules
25 Environment
26 Genes & Cells
27 Matter & Energy
28 Body & Brain
30 Life
31 Technology
32 Earth
33 Humans
Departments
14 GENES & CELLS
s Egg timer runs faster in
worms
s Cellular spiderweb catches
a different kind of bug
s Pituitary gland assembles
itself in a lab dish
2 FROM THE EDITOR
4 NOTEBOOK
34 BOOKSHELF
35 FEEDBACK
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16 BODY & BRAIN
s Rats have a heart
s Caffeine target in brain found
s Bedbugs have big families
s Vaccine works against
emerging chikungunya virus
s Dengue vaccine effective
against all four strains
36 FROM THE ARCHIVE
Physicists compete in a race to
the bottom with a finish line
that can never be reached.
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18 MATTER & ENERGY
s Odd superconductor may
hold even odder particle
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