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- Health & Medicine
Teen brains’ growing pains
Testing captures substantial changes in some youths’ IQs and gray matter.
- Life
Stopping a real-life ‘Contagion’
An antibody treatment fends off the lethal Hendra virus in monkeys and may also work against the equally dangerous Nipah virus.
- Space
Critics take aim at fast neutrinos
Lack of energy trail suggests faster-than-light finding was miscalculated.
- Life
No shortage of dangerous DNA
Woman who lived until age 115 didn’t lack genes that predispose her to disease, but she may have had some that protected her.
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- Physics
Laser analysis betrays diamonds’ origins
A new spectroscopy technique could be used to identify gemstones mined in war zones.
- Life
Take my enemy, please
The risky business of relocating endangered species might have better outcomes if conservationists shift solitary animals along with their usual territorial rivals.
- Life
Study maps disease-linked gene variants
New evidence suggests that disease-associated genetic variants are mostly involved in regulating genes.
- Space
HiRISE clocks hurricane-speed winds on Mars
Orbiting camera measures swirling gusts in dust devils.
- Humans
Plague bug not so fierce after all
DNA analysis shows bacterium was fairly ordinary but thrived in pestilent conditions of medieval Europe.
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- Paleontology
Oxygen blew up ancient amoebas
Single-celled creatures' size spiked as oxygen levels rose.
