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- Earth
Rodent poop gauges ancient rains
The size of chinchilla pellets reveals past desert environment.
- Life
Removing a barrier to regrowing organs
Depleting proteins that prevent cancer allowed heart cells to regenerate in mouse experiments.
- Life
Gene licensing stifles R&D
Making research findings private property can stymie innovation down the road, a new study finds.
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The pattern collector
Neil Sloane's Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences outgrows its creator.
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- Health & Medicine
Brain has emotional sense
Scientists have found regions that may be involved in storing the sights, smells, and sounds of emotional memories.
- Life
Emerging disease may wipe out common bat in the Northeast
Hard-hit region could lose little brown myotis to white-nose syndrome within decades
- Space
All wet, or high and dry?
The moon’s interior contains far less water than Earth’s, new studies of rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggest.
- Humans
World of proteincraft
Players compete to solve scientific puzzles in an online computer game.
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- Health & Medicine
Violent dreams may predict illness in advance
A sleep disorder can precede neurodegenerative disease by decades.
