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  1. Physics

    Superconductor may hide long-sought secret

    It conducts electricity without resistance, sure; but a new material could also demonstrate the existence of a particle proposed 70 years ago.

    By Devin Powell
  2. Health & Medicine

    Exceptional memory linked to bulked-up parts of brain

    People with total recall of their life’s events have enlargement in a region also associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    Childhood sex abuse tied to heart risk

    Women victimized as children or in adolescence have increased cardiac disease in adulthood, a study shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Sleep doesn’t help old folks remember

    Reduced quality of slumber with age erases memory benefits of snoozing.