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  1. Health & Medicine

    High testosterone linked to prostate cancer risk

    Men with naturally high testosterone levels face an elevated risk of prostate cancer, suggesting that men who use hormone supplements to combat age-related problems could also be in trouble.

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  2. Humans

    Tulane’s traveling med school

    Houston medical schools opened their facilities to a sister institution in New Orleans whose faculty and students were sent into exile by Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters.

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  3. Tech

    Humane bloodletting

    Medical researchers have designed a new lancet that dramatically reduces the pain experienced by lab mice during blood-sampling procedures.

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  4. Flu from horses is racing among dogs

    A highly contagious influenza virus that has killed greyhounds and sickened other dogs may have first jumped to canines from a single infected horse.

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  5. Planetary Science

    What whacked the inner solar system?

    Planetary scientists have determined that the cavalcade of space debris that hammered the inner solar system for the first 700 million years of its existence were main-belt asteroids, not comets.

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  6. Brains disconnect as people sleep

    Rather than turning off completely during sleep, the brain shuts down communication among structures that make up neural networks.

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  7. Physics

    Transistor laser flaunts twin talents

    A transistor that doubles as a laser can now operate at room temperature, bringing it to the verge of practical applications.

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  8. Concentrated Guidance: Attention training gives kids a cognitive push

    A brief course on how to pay attention boosts children's scores on either intelligence or attention tests, depending on their age.

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  9. Milky seas clarified

    With the help of satellites, scientists have obtained the first-ever photos of an expanse of seawater filled with bioluminescent bacteria.

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  10. Astronomy

    Cosmic Ray Font: Supernova remnants rev up ions

    High-resolution X-ray images of the Tycho supernova remnant offer new evidence that supernova shock waves generate most cosmic rays that bombard Earth.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Give It Up: Cutting back helps, but even a cigarette or two a day carries risks

    Reducing tobacco use curbs the risk of lung cancer, but smoking even a few cigarettes a day puts a person at three to five times the risk faced by a nonsmoker.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Better Beta: Cells grown in lab may treat diabetes

    Scientists have developed a technique to mass-produce a type of pancreas cell needed for transplants into people with type 1 diabetes.

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