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  1. Humans

    Google project launches new field of culture study

    An analysis of digitized books probes language change, collective memory and other cultural developments from 1800 to 2000.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Health & Medicine

    No fear

    A woman who lacks a basic brain structure, the amygdala, couldn’t be frightened no matter how hard researchers tried. And they tried.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Earth

    Climate action could save polar bears

    Cutting fossil fuel emissions soon would retain enough sea ice habitat for threatened species, scientists say.

    By Alexandra Witze
  4. Health & Medicine

    Gene linked to some smokers’ lung cancer

    FGFR1 is amped up in a subset of cancers; inhibiting its proteins can shrink tumors in mice.