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  1. Health & Medicine

    Statins Take On the Brain

    Cholesterol-lowering drugs may also treat or prevent Alzheimer's disease.

    By John Travis
  2. Tech

    Hop . . . Hop . . . Hopbots!

    Two prototype jumping robots that hop, crash-and-land, and then hop again are demonstrating a novel mobility concept that may finally enable small, cheap robots to roam widely over rough terrain.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Materials Science

    Droplets string themselves together

    Under the right conditions, mixing two incompatible polymers can produce drops that organize themselves into strings.

    By Jessica Gorman
  4. Paleontology

    Did ancient superbees squash diversity?

    The recent discovery of several dozen extinct bee species in ancient amber deposits has led one paleontologist to propose that the very success of some bees' social lifestyle led to today's dearth of hive-dwelling species.