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  1. Planetary Science

    Sister Planet: Mission to Venus reveals watery past

    The Venus Express probe has found evidence that Venus once had more water than it does today, and has provided new measurements of the weather on Venus, proof of lightning on the planet, and signs of a formerly unknown hot spot near its south pole.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Dengue virus found in donated blood

    Scientists have discovered that 12 units of blood donated in Puerto Rico in late 2005 contained the dengue virus.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Sleeping sickness pill may work as well as injections

    The first oral drug for sleeping sickness is showing effectiveness in a trial in central Africa.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Bomb craters mean trouble for islanders

    A skin infection in people living on the Pacific island of Satowan stems from swimming in ponds formed from World War II bomb craters there.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Patch guards against Montezuma’s revenge

    A patch worn on the skin delivers a vaccine against a form of Escherichia coli that causes traveler's diarrhea.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Additives may make youngsters hyper

    Common food colorings and the preservative sodium benzoate have the potential to foster hyperactivity and inattentiveness in children, a new study finds.

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  7. Chemistry

    Hydrogen makers

    A new bioreactor produces hydrogen hundreds of times as fast as previous prototypes.

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  8. ADHD kids show slower brain growth

    A new brain-scan investigation indicates that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder involves substantial delays in children's brain development.

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  9. Anthropology

    Ancient-ape remains discovered in Kenya

    Newly unearthed fossils of a 9.8-million-year-old ape in eastern Africa come from a creature that may have evolved into a common ancestor of African apes and humans.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Biohazard: Smoking before or after pregnancy may harm daughters’ fertility

    Smoking before pregnancy or during breastfeeding might impair the female offspring's fertility, a study in mice shows.

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  11. Physics

    Einstein Unruffled: Relativity passes stringent new tests

    The moon's orbit and the dilated time of speeding atoms give new meaning to 'Einstein was right.'

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Wrong Way: HIV vaccine hinders immunity in mice

    An HIV vaccine hurts, not helps, the immune systems of mice, say scientists.

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