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- Health & Medicine
Immune cells chow down on living brain
Microglia prune developing rat and monkey brains by eating neural stem cells.
- Life
Impending death alters crickets’ standards for mates
With a short time to live, parasite-infested females lose their preference for fast-chirping males.
- Humans
Obama unveils brain science program
Initiative would develop tools to measure coordinated neuron activity.
- Psychology
Light found in cocaine addiction tunnel
Using lasers, scientists target a sluggish set of neurons in rats to ease drug compulsion.
- Health & Medicine
Ovarian cancer drug candidate passes early clinical test
An experimental medicine that uses a seek-and-destroy design to kill tumor cells may help some patients who face a recurrence.
- Humans
Obama seeks R&D funding boost in tough times
The administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2014 lifts nondefense research spending by 9 percent.
- Humans
Group size affects racial makeup of friend groups
Larger settings seem to promote segregation, simulation finds.
- Humans
Web searches for money words anticipate market moves
Dow drops follow weeks when more people search Google for ‘debt’ or ‘stocks.’
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- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
How leeches are able to swell tenfold, plus not-so-super solids, new natural toxins and more in this week's news.
- Chemistry
Water-air interface barely there
The transition between gas and liquid is an extremely insubstantial affair.
