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  1. Health & Medicine

    Inner-brain electrode may curb depression

    Deep-brain electrical stimulation has shown promise in treating severe depression.

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  2. Astronomy

    Radiation from a baby star

    X-ray telescopes have captured the earliest and clearest view of the core of a gas cloud about to transform into a star.

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  3. Master gene found for insect smell

    A single gene may oversee the sense of smell in a variety of insect species.

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  4. Anthropology

    Inside view of our wee, ancient cousins

    A tiny, humanlike species that inhabited an Indonesian island more than 20,000 years ago possessed a brain that shared some organizational features with Homo erectus, a large-brained human ancestor that thought in complex ways.