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  Can Sugar Make You Stupid?

  Bingeing on fructose stunted memory and learning in rats, prompting "high concern" over unhealthy humans.

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  Carbon Capture Faces a Hazy Future

  Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects around the world are hitting a wall in the face of high costs and a lack of climate policy.

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  SpaceX Successfully Launches

  A Falcon 9 rocket sent an unmanned capsule into orbit on its way to rendezvous with the International Space Station.

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  Fossil Ink Sacs Yield Pigment

  Still soft ink sacs from 160-million-year-old squidlike animals have yielded pigment matching that of modern cuttlefish.

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  Killer Mice Gobbling Up Rare Birds

  Oversize house mice are consuming millions of endangered Atlantic petrels on the bird's only known breeding area, a new study confirms.

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  New Solar Eclipse Pictures

  See stunning images of the annular eclipse that created a "ring of fire" enjoyed by millions of sky-watchers in Asia and the U.S. West.

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  Harnessing Pedestrian Power

  In areas with high foot traffic, special flooring may prove that the answer to meeting energy demand lies right beneath our feet.

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  Space Pictures This Week

  Stars whirl in a psychedelic sky, NASA spies a ghostly eye, a cloud-stained moon rises, and more in the week's best space pictures.

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  Measuring Impact of Amazon Highway

  Scientists deploy "leaf packs" to survey threatened water quality in Peru.

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  Asteroid to Smash Satellites?

  The newfound space rock 2012 DA14 will pass so close to Earth in February that it could hit a communications satellite, scientists say.