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- Life
Cancer cells self-destruct in blind mole rats
Underground rodents evolved a way to zap mutating tissue.
- Life
Trunk in cheek, elephant mimics Korean
Novel posture lets animal imitate sounds of human words.
- Health & Medicine
Statin substitutes go beyond drawing board
A new generation of cholesterol-lowering drugs might help people who can’t take the usual pills or who don’t benefit adequately from them.
- Earth
New pathway proposed for ancient flood
Meltwaters off the northwestern part of Canada’s ice sheet would have shut down the ocean’s heat circulation 13,000 years ago.
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- Health & Medicine
Heart bypass surgery outperforms stents in diabetics
Among patients getting multiple coronary blockages cleared, those assigned to surgery fared better.
- Science & Society
Insect illustrator
Taina Litwak is an “art department of one” in D.C. for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Systematic Entomology Laboratory.
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