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  1. Humans

    Stopping menopausal hormones may require more bone monitoring

    Women face a small rise in fracture risk within 10 years of stopping therapy, suggesting the need for additional monitoring.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    The sugar substitute sucralose makes immunotherapy less effective

    Found in Splenda, sucralose reduces immunotherapy efficacy via its effects on the gut microbiome, but arginine supplements might counter the outcome.

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  3. Materials Science

    Scientists re-create a legendary golden fabric from clam waste

    Sea silk, once spun from endangered clams, may make a comeback — thanks to discarded fibers from a farmed species. The find could sustainably revive a fading art.

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  4. Paleontology

    Dinosaur teeth reveal some were picky eaters

    The enamel in fossilized teeth reveals some dinosaurs preferred to eat particular parts of plants.

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  5. Environment

    See how aerosols loft through Earth’s sky

    Aerosols, small particles in the atmosphere like salt and dust, may offset a third of human-caused climate warming, though their influence is fading.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    How flossing a mouse’s teeth could lead to a new kind of vaccine

    Flu viruses often enter the body through mucous tissue in the nose. Researchers are developing new ways to protect such areas.

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  7. Life

    Squashing the spotted lanternfly problem may require enlisting other species

    The invasive spotted lanternfly has spread to 17 states and can threaten vineyards. But bats, fungi, dogs and even trees may help control them.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    New clues emerge on how foods spark anaphylaxis

    In two studies of mice, a molecule called leukotriene helped trigger food-induced anaphylaxis. A drug approved for asthma — zileuton — diminished it.

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  9. Planetary Science

    A giant planet may orbit our closest sunlike neighbor

    Alpha Centauri A, four light-years from Earth, may host a gas giant. If confirmed, no Earthlike planets orbit in the star’s habitable zone.

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  10. Archaeology

    This ancient Siberian ice mummy had a talented tattooist

    Researchers reconstructed a roughly 2,000-year-old woman’s tattoos, from prowling tigers to a fantastical griffinlike creature.

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  11. Archaeology

    7 stone tools might rewrite the timeline of hominid migration in Indonesia 

    Excavated implements suggest a Homo species arrived on Sulawesi over 1 million years ago, before a nearby island hosted hobbit ancestors.

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  12. Plants

    A newly discovered gene helped this moss defy gravity

    A gene called IBSH1 helped spreading earthmoss thrive at high gravity, hinting at how plants adapted to photosynthesize on land.

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