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  1. Earth

    Top of Everest is an ozone overdose

    Wafts from lower atmosphere, polluted regions bathe the peak in amounts that exceed EPA limits.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Epigenetics reveals unexpected, and some identical, results

    One study finds tissue-specific methylation signatures in the genome; another a similarity between identical twins in DNA’s chemical tagging.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Neural paths for borderline personality disorder

    A new brain-imaging study indicates that unusual neural activity linked to emotion, attention and conflict-resolution systems underlies a common psychiatric condition known as borderline personality disorder.

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  4. Humans

    Gamers crave control and competence, not carnage

    Study turns belief commonly held by video game industry, gamers, on its head.

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  5. Earth

    Livestock manure stinks for infant health

    Megafarm production associated with infant illness and death rates.

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  6. Life

    For worms, one gene can change survival behavior

    Natural differences in a single gene cause worms to either eat or avoid harmful bacteria.

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  7. Life

    Capuchin monkeys choose the right tool for the nut

    New field experiments indicate that wild capuchin monkeys choose the most effective stones for cracking nuts, suggesting deep evolutionary roots for the use of stone tools.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Using checklist reduces surgery complications

    Measure twice, cut once: Going over a checklist of procedures in the operating room before and after surgery lowers the complication rate and, in developing countries, saves lives, a study in eight hospitals shows.

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  9. Earth

    World’s windiest ocean locale

    News briefs from the American Meteorological Society annual meeting being held January 11–15 in Phoenix.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Omega-3 fatty acid is early boost for female preemies

    DHA given to newborns in the first weeks following birth improves brain development in girls, but not boys.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Going nano to see viruses 3-D

    Nanoscale MRI-like machine images individual virus shapes; first step to seeing proteins in 3-D

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  12. Life

    Dinosaur fossil reveals creature of a different feather

    Paleontologists have discovered a fossil partially covered with broad, unbranched filaments — a type of structure previously theorized to exist on primitive feathered dinosaurs but not found until now.

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