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  1. Health & Medicine

    Simple steps can offer health benefits

    Studies find that even small changes in eating habits and movement can lower risk of heart disease.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Dropping blood pressure to 120 lowers heart woes, data confirm

    Aggressive treatment to lower systolic blood pressure to 120 reduces risk of heart attack, but causes some side effects.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Antibodies to fight Alzheimer’s may have unexpected consequences

    Alzheimer’s-targeted antibodies make neurons misbehave even more, a study of mice shows.

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  4. Life

    Gene editing helps a baby battle cancer

    Doctors used molecular scalpels to tweak T cells to target leukemia but not harm the patient.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Young babies live in a world unto themselves

    Young babies don’t let information from the outside throw off their touch perception, a finding that has clues for how babies experience the world.

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  6. Anthropology

    Ancient hominids used wooden spears to fend off big cats

    Saber-toothed cat remains suggest ancient hominids used wooden spears as defensive weapons.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Parasite gives a man cancer

    Tapeworms can kick parasitism up a notch to become cancer, a case in Colombia shows.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Blood exerts a powerful influence on the brain

    Instead of just responding to the energy needs of neurons, the blood can have a direct and powerful influence on the brain.

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  9. Anthropology

    Early globalization on display in history of Eurasian civilization

    It was a long, strange trip from the first Eurasian farmers to the modern world.

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  10. Psychology

    No, cheese is not just like crack

    Recent news reports claimed that a study shows cheese is addictive. But the facts behind the research show cheese and crack have little in common.

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  11. Anthropology

    Petite primate fossil could upend ideas about ape evolution

    Ancient fossils suggest modern apes descended from a small, gibbonlike creature.

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  12. Anthropology

    Synchronized dancing boosts pain tolerance

    Dancing in sync to high energy routines increase pain tolerance and helps people bond as a group, a study suggests.

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