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Health & MedicineThe Foreign Drug Trade
Chances are you haven't a clue where your medicines come from.
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Health & MedicineWindow of opportunity for stroke treatment widens
Use of clot-busting drugs as long as 4½ hours after an event pays dividends later.
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Health & MedicineCancer data: Burying bad news
Featured blog: Data from the vast majority of human cancer trials never get published, a new study finds — and that's not a good thing.
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PhysicsPhotons caught in the act
Physicists manipulated a microwave pulse and could essentially watch it transition from a quantum state into the realm of classical physics.
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Health & MedicineClosing in on Rett syndrome
Scientists find that a particular part of the mouse brain is responsible for behavioral abnormalities associated with Rett syndrome, an autism spectrum disease that strikes females.
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Health & MedicineDiabetes drug helps shed pounds
The diabetes drug pramlintide facilitates year-long weight loss in obese volunteers, a new study shows.
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SpaceLowdown on the sun
The current solar minimum is the lowest — and one of the longest — recorded in the past 50 years, since modern measurements began.
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SpaceLarge Hadron Collider shuts down early for the winter
CERN announces that needed repairs, plus high fuel costs, will delay the first planned collisions until next spring.
By Ron Cowen -
Planetary ScienceSaturn’s rings may not be as young as they look
Saturn's rings might be more massive, and thus older, than researchers had believed.
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LifeNanoparticles: size and charge matter
Nanoparticles can be designed for targeted delivery of drugs or genes into the body. New work reveals details of how blood proteins respond to these particles.
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Health & MedicineThis is the brain on age
The activity of genes in men's brains begins to change sooner than it does in women's brains, a new study shows.
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HumansStone Age seafood fans
Excavations in two Gibraltar caves suggest that Neandertals, like modern humans, regularly visited the Mediterranean shore to complement a land-based diet with seafood
By Bruce Bower