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- Health & Medicine
Snakebite treatment buys time
An ointment that slows the transport of venom from the bite site to the vital organs could keep victims alive long enough to reach medical care.
- Earth
Earth/Environment
Platypuses in trouble, toxins in lakes and a chemical link to early puberty in this week’s news.
- Tech
Batteries not included
Researchers have developed a sensor that, when flexed, generates enough charge to send wireless signals.
- Psychology
Math disability tied to bad number sense
Children who don’t grasp arithmetic at all, unlike below-average students, have little feel for estimating quantities.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Self-sufficient pancreatic cells, tingly spinal cells and vitamin D for gum disease in this week’s news.
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- Physics
New data zap views of static electricity
Materials appear to build up charge by exchanging tiny bits of material, a study concludes.
- Life
Blue light used to treat diabetes
Illumination triggers control of blood sugar in mice implanted with engineered human cells.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Sight restored after 55 years, plus hockey-checking injuries, statins' diabetes link and more in this week's news.
- Space
Spacecraft goes from crash landing to mission accomplished
The wreckage of the Genesis probe yields a bonanza of discoveries about conditions in the early solar system.
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- Paleontology
Big dinosaurs kept their cool
Body temperature of long-gone beasts resembled that of mammals, study of fossil teeth suggests.
