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More Stories from the January 25, 2014 issue

  1. Neuroscience

    Brain chip enables injured rats to control movements

    Prosthesis bypasses damaged area to connect distant neurons.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Heartburn drugs linked to vitamin deficiency

    People who take Nexium, Prilosec and other medicines more prone to low B12 levels.

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  3. Climate

    Coldest place moves from one Antarctic site to another

    New record low measured by satellite.

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  4. Planetary Science

    Europa vents water, Hubble data suggest

    Plumes from ice-covered oceans would increase likelihood of life-friendly conditions on one moon of Jupiter.

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  5. Paleontology

    Fleshy comb is first found on a dinosaur

    A fossil head has both a duck bill and a soft-tissue crest, scientists suggest.

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  6. Life

    Animal origins shift to comb jellies

    Genetic data confirm the marine predators have more ancient origin than simpler sponges.

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  7. Climate

    Tornado intensity climbs in the United States

    Larger paths of destruction may be tied to climate change.

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  8. Archaeology

    Easter Island’s farmers cultivated social resilience, not collapse

    A Polynesian society often presumed to have self-destructed shows signs of having carried on instead.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Dog dust may benefit infant immune systems

    Microbes from pet-owning houses protected mice against allergy, infection.

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  10. Animals

    China trumps Near East for signs of most ancient farm cats

    Earliest evidence found for grain as a force in feline domestication.

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  11. Life

    Nicotine may damage arteries

    Other chemicals in cigarettes may not be to blame.

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  12. Planetary Science

    Sinkholes, tectonics may have shaped Titan’s lakes and seas

    A map of Saturn’s largest moon reveals clues about the object's landscape.

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  13. Life

    Neandertal genes point to interbreeding, inbreeding

    DNA from 50,000 years ago underscores modest levels of mating across hominid populations.

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  14. Life

    Chronic wounds may succumb to vitamins

    In mice, antioxidants fight diabetic sores.

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  15. Neuroscience

    Narcolepsy may be an autoimmune disease

    Narcolepsy occurs when wayward immune forces launch an attack on brain cells responsible for wakefulness, a new study suggests.

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  16. Planetary Science

    Exoplanet mass revealed in light

    A new method could help identify habitable planets.

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  17. Chemistry

    Salt spices up chemistry

    Hot, compressed sodium chloride stretches the fundamental rules of matter.

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  18. Astronomy

    Relic of early universe found nearby

    A galaxy little changed since the dawn of the universe shows up in our celestial neighborhood.

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  19. Environment

    Protein fibers trap greenhouse gas

    The method could scrub exhaust from cars and power plants.

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  20. Paleontology

    Hunting fossils in England

    On Monmouth Beach, just west of the center of Lyme Regis, amateur and professional collectors have been making discoveries for more than two centuries.

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  21. Science & Society

    Tracking fireballs for science

    Watching a meteor race across the night sky is a romantic experience. And now it can be a scientific one as well.

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  22. Animals

    Sperm on a stick for springtails

    Many males of the tiny soil organisms sustain their species by leaving drops of sperm glistening here and there in the landscape in case a female chooses to pick one up.

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  23. Health & Medicine

    Vaccine vindication

    At least 103 million cases of childhood disease have been prevented by vaccines since 1924.

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  24. Physics

    Transfixing tetrahedrons

    Dervishes are Sufi Muslims who represent the revolving heavens with their spinning dance.

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