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  1. Humans

    Facebook users keep it real in online profiles

    College students on Facebook display their real personalities, not reinvented selves, a new study suggests.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Germs in tobacco are potential source of respiratory infections blamed on smoking

    Tests find hundreds of bacterial species in major cigarette brands.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Chip of tooth tells radiation dose

    A two-milligram dot of tooth enamel serves as a radiation dosimeter.

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  4. Space

    Shaving extra dimensions

    More news from the American Physical Society meeting.

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  5. Life

    Hydrothermal vents sometimes colonized from afar

    Deep-sea currents can waft larvae hundreds of kilometers.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Carotid procedures test about equally

    Study finds similar stroke risks after surgery or stents.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    U.S. women still have higher stroke incidence than men

    Research suggests possible link to abdominal fat.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Compound might facilitate stroke recovery

    Animal study finds regrowth of brain cells with natural protein fragment.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Coffee associated with lower stroke risk

    Study finds java drinkers 71 percent as likely to have had stroke as nondrinkers.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Cooling stroke patients from the inside out

    A treatment that induces hypothermia proves safe in an early test.

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  11. Chemistry

    Naming an atomic heavyweight

    More than a decade after its debut in a German lab, element 112 is officially named copernicium.

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  12. Ecosystems

    Sea of plastics

    Oceanographers are finding more patches of floating polymers, some up to 20 meters deep.

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