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  1. Health & Medicine

    Hopes raised for Ebola treatment

    Most monkeys given dual therapy survive infection with lethal virus.

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  2. Particle Physics

    Nobel’s sharp cuts

    Gerald Guralnik was home when he learned online that physicists François Englert and Peter Higgs had won the Nobel Prize in physics for formulating the same theory he had proposed nearly 50 years ago.

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  3. Astronomy

    Galaxy’s gas molecules reveal its structure

    Astronomers have tracked carbon monoxide flowing both toward and away from NGC 1433’s central supermassive black hole.

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  4. Animals

    Lurking males lead to hard-to-fertilize mouse eggs

    Mixed-sex society raises resistance to sperm in what may be a long-running arms race between the sexes over fertilization.

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  5. Physics

    New limit placed on physics constant

    An analysis of how much the fine structure constant varies with the density of matter may help scientists determine whether the parameter changes with time.

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  6. Life

    Scorpion genome decoded

    An analysis of an arachnid’s DNA reveals how the animal survives its own venom.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Audio therapy may avert chemo-induced hearing loss

    Mice exposed to loud sound before getting chemotherapy preserve valuable cells in the inner ear, a new study shows.

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  8. Life

    Flashy drug spotlights infection

    Doctors may be able to watch for invading microbes with a fluorescent antibiotic.

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  9. Life

    Broccoli compound protects rats from lethal radiation

    Treatment shields healthy cells from gamma ray attack but lets tumors die.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Electrodes dupe brain into feeling touch

    Stimulating the right neuron at the right time gave monkeys the sensation of contact.

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  11. Animals

    Dogs pick up robots’ social cues

    Dogs were more likely to pay attention to a PeopleBot robot — a machine with a laptop head and Mickey Mouse–style hands — after watching it walk, talk and shake hands with humans.

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  12. Science & Society

    Scarcity

    Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explain why having too little means so much.

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