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  1. Low-tech approach stifles high-risk Nipah virus

    Protecting palm-tree sap from bats may limit spread of deadly disease, a study in Bangladesh shows.

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  2. Humans

    Visual illusion stumps adults but not kids

    Finding suggests that sensitivity to visual context develops slowly.

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  3. Earth

    Where humans go, pepper virus follows

    Plant pathogen could help track waters polluted with human waste.

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  4. Earth

    Deep hole spotted on moon

    The feature may be a ‘skylight’ in an underground lava tube.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Malaria shows signs of resisting best drug used to fight it

    The frontline malaria medicine artemisinin shows gaps in effectiveness in Southeast Asia.