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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Humans

    Couples who meet online have fine marriages

    Relationship satisfaction for Internet daters is similar to that of people who find potential partners in more traditional ways.

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  2. Psychology

    Present Shock

    When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff.

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  3. Humans

    Intel ISEF honors teens’ science

    Winners of science competition announced.

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  4. Life

    Life Support

    Studies reveal the placenta’s crucial role in healthy pregnancies.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Easy steps limit antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals

    Intensive care units that bathe patients and take other precautions have fewer cases of staph, a study finds.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Mars trip would deliver big radiation dose

    Curiosity instrument confirms expectation of major exposures.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Cancer drug damages mouse hearts by slaying helpful cells

    Explanation for side effect in people could provide way to avoid it.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Underactive thyroid ups pregnancy risks

    Several complications are more common in women with the condition, including gestational diabetes and cesarean births.

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  9. Life

    Response to bacterial infection depends on time of day

    Mice that got Salmonella in the evening fared better than those given the microbe in the morning.

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  10. Life

    A molecular window on itch

    Researchers discover chemical puppet master behind the need to scratch.

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  11. Psychology

    Less is more for smart perception

    Neural efficiency reigns in brains of high-IQ individuals as they view their surroundings, a new study indicates.

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  12. Psychology

    Dog sniffs out grammar

    After years of word training, a canine intuitively figures out how simple sentences work.

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