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  1. Neuroscience

    Like people, dogs have brain areas that respond to voices

    MRI study may help explain how pups understand human communication.

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  2. Archaeology

    Fire used regularly for cooking for 300,000 years

    Israeli cave yields a fireplace where Stone Age crowd may have cooked up social change.

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  3. Psychology

    Lend an ear to science

    Pop music hit maker Clive Davis knows a catchy song when he hears one. Now an app aims to define that elusive quality more concretely.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Mesh best for hernia repair

    Data from nine studies show fewer recurrences than fixes with sutures only.

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  5. Life

    Big study raises worries about bees trading diseases

    Pathogens may jump from commercial colonies to the wild.

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  6. Astronomy

    While exploding, supernovas not spherical

    X-rays reveal uneven allotment of element made by blowup.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Highlights from the International Stroke Conference

    Clotting risk after pregnancy, driving after a stroke and more presented February 12-14 in San Diego.

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  8. Oceans

    Unknowns linger for sea mining

    Scientists struggle to predict underwater digs’ effects on sea life.

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  9. Psychology

    Stress hormone rise linked to less risky financial decisions

    People given cortisol chose safer options, suggesting inherent risk aversion as an overlooked variable in financial crises.

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  10. Earth

    Magma spends most of its existence as sludgy mush

    Volcanic magma may spend most of its time in a chunky state resembling cold porridge, a new study finds.

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  11. Physics

    Levitating objects with sound

    Physicists have levitated milli­meter-sized objects. Now, the objects can levitate and move in all directions.

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  12. Neuroscience

    White matter scaffold offers new view of the brain

    A new neural map of white matter connections may explain why some injuries are worse than others.

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