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  1. Space

    Water-ice deposits found beneath Martian hills

    Using radar from an orbiting spacecraft to penetrate the hidden recesses of Mars, planetary prospectors have uncovered vast reserves of water-ice buried beneath rocky debris.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Treat HIV-positive babies from the start

    Babies who are born infected with HIV from their mothers should be treated for the virus as soon as possible, even before symptoms begin, a study finds.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Minus one gene, male mouse is Mr. Mom

    The last day of the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting offers new ideas on gender-based behavior, the genetics of creativity, the brain power of motherhood and the non-randomness of blinking.

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  4. Physics

    Superconductivity does the twist

    Electron fluctuations could explain why exotic material conducts without resistance.

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  5. Life

    Mammoth genome approaching completion

    Genetic material extracted from the hair of woolly mammoths has revealed new information about the extinct creatures, including how closely related they are to modern elephants.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Sleep makes room for memories

    Sleep erases old memories to make way for new learning

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  7. Health & Medicine

    This is the teenager’s brain on peer pressure

    Research shared during the fourth day of the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting remained diverse: What happens in the brain when teenagers feel peer pressure, a study in mice suggesting a new way to treat depression, the best way to relearn walking after a stroke, and the long lasting effects of disrupted sleep.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Ginkgo biloba fails drug test

    The herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba fails to prevent Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia, a large trial finds.

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  9. Animals

    Forensics’ next tool: Hair-collecting caterpillars

    First human DNA extraction from hair bits in moth larval case.

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  10. Humans

    Moonsleeping bad for spacewalking

    Day three of the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting offered news about Down syndrome and sleep cycles.

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  11. Psychology

    Your body is mine

    Scientists have developed a technique for inducing an illusion of having swapped one’s own body with someone else’s body, providing a new means for investigating self-identity and body-image disorders.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Still crazy (in love) after all these years

    A brain imaging study reveals that some people are as giddy as teenagers in love, even after two decades of marriage.

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