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Comment:  Here are today’s top science news stories from “ScienceMag”, published on 30 November 2018.  Views expressed in this science news summary are those of the reporters and correspondents.

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• Top stories: a shocking CRISPR claim, a Mars landing, and a geneticist’s take on gene-editing controversy

  BY FRANKIE SCHEMBRINOV. 30, 2018
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  Universal flu vaccine remains ‘an alchemist’s dream’

  BY JON COHENNOV. 30, 2018
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  Why are these Costa Rican monkeys turning yellow?

  BY HELEN SANTORONOV. 30, 2018
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  An ‘epic scientific misadventure’: NIH head Francis Collins ponders fallout from CRISPR baby study

  BY JON COHENNOV. 30, 2018
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  Scientists, surfers, and our own reporter team up to design a better wetsuit

  BY JON COHENNOV. 30, 2018
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  Strongest evidence of early humans butchering animals discovered in North Africa

  BY ANN GIBBONSNOV. 29, 2018
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  Even fruit flies succumb to cultural dating pressures

  BY FRANKIE SCHEMBRINOV. 29, 2018
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  Spider moms spotted nursing their offspring with milk

  BY ELIZABETH PENNISINOV. 29, 2018