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  1. Health & Medicine

    Intentional weight loss in old age not detrimental, study finds

    Among obese group, those who shed pounds as part of diet study were less likely to die during follow-up years.

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  2. Math

    Hiding patients in plain sight

    A new technique could help make medical records available to researchers without compromising privacy.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Mapping the fruit fly brain

    A new digital atlas could reveal how 100,000 neurons work together.

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  4. Physics

    Colliding dust grains charge each other up

    Physicists propose a way that cloud particles can electrify themselves.

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  5. Life

    Briny deep basin may be home to animals thriving without oxygen

    Creatures living deep in the Mediterranean without oxygen would be a remarkable first, biologists say.

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  6. Space

    Newfound neighbor to solar system is a cool slacker

    Researchers have found the closest brown dwarf to Earth and the coolest yet seen, raising the possibility that the nearest starlike body to the solar system may be a brown dwarf rather than a star.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Walnuts may slow prostate cancer

    More news from the American Chemical Society meeting.

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  8. Life

    Fruit flies turn on autopilot

    High-speed video reveals the aerodynamics behind the insects’ maneuverability.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Vaccine works against type 1 diabetes in mouse experiments

    Researchers uncover a self-regulating feature of the immune system.

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  10. Humans

    Copycats prevail in computerized survival game

    A virtual contest suggests that imitation beats innovation in the natural world.

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  11. Anthropology

    Partial skeletons may represent new hominid

    Partial skeletons may represent a new hominid species with implications for Homo origins, one researcher claims. But many of his peers disagree.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Lung function still impaired by dust from World Trade Center

    Firefighters and emergency medical teams continue to have breathing problems years after the 2001 terrorist attack.

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