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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Health & Medicine

    Inactive HIV poses even greater barrier to cure

    The reservoir of dormant virus strains is larger than scientists estimated, a finding that could make the virus harder to combat.

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  2. Psychology

    Groups recall travel details better than loners

    Small teams of people can recite key information from public announcements better than any one person.

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  3. Anthropology

    Hunting boosts lizard numbers in Australian desert

    Reptiles prefer to live in places aboriginal people have burned.

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  4. Humans

    Our Final Invention

    Computers already make all sorts of decisions for you. Imagine if the machines controlled even more aspects of life and could truly think for themselves.

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  5. Humans

    Medicine’s future inspired by science fiction

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Infant digestive problem more likely with formula

    Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, which causes forceful vomiting, is more common in babies not breast-fed.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Seek Meningitis Vaccine

    Excerpt from the November 9, 1963, issue of SCIENCE NEWS LETTER.

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  8. Psychology

    The bright side of sadness

    Bad moods can have unappreciated mental upsides.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    The earliest thumb suckers caught on camera

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  10. Anthropology

    Fossil skull points to single root for human evolution

    New find suggests that humankind’s origins trace to an ancient species that spread from Africa to Asia.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Hopes raised for Ebola treatment

    Most monkeys given dual therapy survive infection with lethal virus.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Audio therapy may avert chemo-induced hearing loss

    Mice exposed to loud sound before getting chemotherapy preserve valuable cells in the inner ear, a new study shows.

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