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- Health & Medicine
Saving preemies’ vision
A drug designed to fight cancer also may thwart aberrant blood vessel growth in the eyes of babies born preterm, a study finds.
By Nathan Seppa -
- Humans
Ice Age cups crafted from crania
An English cave serves up the oldest known vessels made from human skulls
By Bruce Bower - Humans
Human ancestors have identity crisis
Fossils heralded as the remains of 4- to 7-million-year-old hominids might actually come from apes.
By Bruce Bower - Space
‘Deep Impact’ comet revisited
NASA takes pictures of Tempel 1 five years after shooting it with a probe.
By Ron Cowen - Life
Carnivorous bladderworts suck up prey
High-speed movies confirm that bug-eating plants are vacuum feeders.
- Health & Medicine
Brain cells start sending signals early
Fetal neurons show firing patterns similar to those seen in sleeping adults.
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- Humans
2012 budget offers pain and gain for R&D
In a year of federal belt-tightening, the administration prioritizes basic research, education, clean energy and environmental science.
By Janet Raloff - Humans
Humans
The sort-of-popular kids are the biggest bullies, plus more in this week’s news.
By Science News -
- Physics
‘Magnetricity’ behaves like electricity
Currents of monopole-like magnetic charges created in an exotic material called spin ice act much like electricity.
By Devin Powell