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- Health & Medicine
New drug boosts hepatitis C treatments
An experimental medication has cleared a major hurdle and seems poised for FDA approval, two studies show.
- Space
First portraits of Mercury from orbit
MESSENGER spacecraft to capture more than 1,500 images in three days.
- Physics
2011 American Physical Society meeting
Powerful X-rays illuminate hidden messages from the past, plus Lyme disease sensors and graphene transistors in meeting news.
- Physics
2011 American Physical Society meeting
Powerful X-rays illuminate hidden messages from the past, plus Lyme disease sensors and graphene transistors in meeting news.
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- Health & Medicine
Worms live longer with thioflavin T
A dye commonly used by Alzheimer’s disease researchers to spot misshapen proteins gives lab nematodes longer lives, scientists say.
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- Space
First shot of Mercury from orbit
MESSENGER has radioed to Earth a new look at the first rock from the sun.
- Health & Medicine
New brain cell growth restores function
Regeneration in the hippocampus helps repair learning and memory after injury, mouse experiments suggest.
- Humans
Climate meddling dates back 8,000 years
Cutting down trees put lots of carbon into the atmosphere long before the industrial revolution began.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
Dead stars may actually be a good place to hunt for life, plus organic-free asteroids and watery comets in this week’s news.
