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  1. Health & Medicine

    Surveying the Swiss: The eyes have it

    Magnetic resonance imaging can help determine the health of a wheel of cheese.

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  2. Living it up below the ice sheet?

    A recent earthquake in Antarctica points toward geologic activity that could provide the energy necessary to incubate life in a liquid lake deep beneath the ice.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Mice reveal new, severe form of allergy

    Researchers studying an induced condition in mice akin to multiple sclerosis have stumbled across a situation in which mice suffered a severe allergic reaction to injected protein fragments that mimic one their own proteins.

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  4. Roach females pick losers with good scents

    Male Tanzanian cockroaches lose fights if they have too much of a particular pheromone, but females find it alluring.