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- Health & Medicine
Skip spine stabilization and get to the hospital
Gunshot victims may be more likely to survive if they get to the hospital quickly instead of getting spine stabilization first.
- Life
Sea slug steals genes for greens, makes chlorophyll like a plant
A sea slug, long known as a kidnapper of algal biochemistry, can make its own supply of a key photosynthetic compound.
- Space
Saving the Earth with dynamical simulations
A new model suggests how protoplanets kept a safe distance from the sun.
- Health & Medicine
Vast majority of teens are sleep-deprived
Most adolescents need at least eight hours of zzzzz’s a night, studies show, and ideally should garner at least nine. A new study tells us just how many kids meet their slumber quota: a whopping 7.6 percent.
- Archaeology
Ancient hominids may have been seafarers
Researchers have discovered hundreds of African-style stone hand axes on Crete, suggesting that sea-going hominids reached the island hundreds of thousands of years ago en route to Europe.
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Milius versus the bed bugs
Science News writer Susan Milius experiences the perils of knowing what bed bug scientists do in their own hotel rooms.
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- Physics
Symmetry found hidden in supercold atoms
Scientists have detected an elusive, complex symmetry in the frequencies of resonating particles
- Space
Gamma-ray burst may reveal some of oldest dust in the universe
Remote flash may have uncovered supernova-generated dust from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang
- Life
Bornavirus genes found in human DNA
Researchers have found molecular fossils of an RNA virus in human and other mammalian genomes, pushing back the emergence of RNA viruses millions of years.
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- Health & Medicine
New test could discern serious condition early after bone marrow transplant
Protein level in blood reveals graft-versus-host disease, may indicate severity of this complication
