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  1. Health & Medicine

    Rehab for psychopaths

    Psychopaths often don’t fit movie stereotypes, but they share particular characteristics. New research shows that, contrary to popular thought, cognitive behavioral therapy can help some psychopaths stay out of prison.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Astronomy

    Distant galaxy may contain primeval stars

    A stockpile of the first generation of stars might be lighting up gas in a galaxy that existed roughly 800 million years after the Big Bang.

    By Christopher Crockett
  3. Neuroscience

    Homunculus reimagined

    A new study pinpoints the part of the brain that controls the neck muscles, tweaking the motor homunculus.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Animals

    Moon jellies muscle their way to recovery

    Symmetrization, using rapid muscle movements to repair body symmetry, is the go-to healing mechanism for the limbed stage of moon jellyfish.