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  1. Rats take fast route to remembering

    Rats use background knowledge about what they have already learned to remember relevant new material surprisingly quickly.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Augmenting the good cholesterol

    A reconstituted version of good cholesterol may lessen the amount of plaque that accumulates in arteries and render existing plaque less dangerous.

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  3. Planetary Science

    Cavernous findings from Mars

    Images taken by a Mars-orbiting spacecraft show what appear to be caves on the Red Planet.

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  4. Planetary Science

    No Escape: There’s global warming on Mars too

    The overall darkening of Mars' surface in recent decades has significantly raised the Red Planet's temperature, a possible cause for the substantial, recent shrinkage of the planet's southern ice cap.