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  Top stories: Ebola outbreak challenges, Viking cats, and a new kind of placebo

  BY FRANKIE SCHEMBRIDEC. 14, 2018
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  Ancient bird fossils have ‘the weirdest feathers I have ever seen’

  BY JOHN PICKERELLDEC. 14, 2018
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  Surprise! Tornadoes form from the ground up

  BY KATHERINE KORNEIDEC. 13, 2018
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  NIH chief defends use of human fetal tissue as opponents decry it before Congress

  BY MEREDITH WADMAN, JOCELYN KAISERDEC. 13, 2018
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  United States should prepare to build a prototype fusion power plant, panel says

  BY ADRIAN CHODEC. 13, 2018
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  Despite scathing harassment report, UNAIDS board gives agency head a reprieve for now

  BY JON COHENDEC. 13, 2018
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  Podcast: ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ turns 50, and how Neanderthal DNA could change your skull

  BY MEAGAN CANTWELLDEC. 13, 2018
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  Explore NASA’s dream space telescopes in our interactive visual

  BY DANIEL CLERY, CHRIS BICKEL, ET AL.DEC. 13, 2018
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  NASA is planning four of the largest space telescopes ever. But which one will fly?

  BY DANIEL CLERYDEC. 13, 2018
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  Genomic data from 2000 human brains could reveal roots of schizophrenia, autism, and other neurological disorders

  BY KELLY SERVICKDEC. 13, 2018
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  Draw clearer red lines around human gene editing, say leaders of Chinese and U.S. science academies

  BY JON COHENDEC. 13, 2018
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  Are scientific conferences providing enough child care support? Science investigates

  BY KATIE LANGINDEC. 13, 2018
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  Tourists may be making Antarctica’s penguins sick

  BY MARIA BOLEVICHDEC. 13, 2018
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  Updated: NIH says cancer study also hit by fetal tissue ban

  BY MEREDITH WADMANDEC. 13, 2018
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  Why modern humans have round heads

  BY ANN GIBBONSDEC. 13, 2018