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Health & MedicineChill-out device may protect brain during heart attacks
A portable method to quickly lower body temperature passes safety tests
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SpaceMoon crash reveals crater held water
Plume of lunar material contained roughly 25 gallons of vapor and ice.
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PhysicsNew device can use noise to store one bit
Data storage system employs a resonance effect to do work.
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AnthropologyFor Hadza, build and brawn don’t matter for choosing mates
Study of hunter-gatherer community in Tanzania shows that, across human groups, mating criteria vary.
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Unsticking Spirit
Efforts to extract the Mars rover from a sandpit will start November 16, but success is uncertain.