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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Health & Medicine

    Slacker rat, worker rat

    Rodent work ethic, like people’s, comes in two types.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Fatty diet leads to fat-loving brain cells

    A study in mice links a high-fat diet to changes in the brain that might encourage weight gain.

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  3. Humans

    Growth-promoting antibiotics: On the way out?

    Sixty-two years later — to the day — after Science News ran its first story on the growth-promoting effects of antibiotics, a federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration to resume efforts to outlaw such nonmedical use of antibiotics.

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  4. Anthropology

    Measure Your Giant Carefully And His Size Will Shrink

    Ongoing controversy over a hobbitlike hominid.

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  5. Psychology

    Visions For All

    People who report vivid religious experiences may hold clues to nonpsychotic hallucinations.

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  6. Life

    Making mouse memories

    Neuroscientists create a synthetic recollection of fear in rodents.

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  7. Life

    The yin and yang of male pattern baldness

    The discovery of a hormone-like molecule in the scalp may offer new clues for treating baldness.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Abnormal cells may signal hidden heart risk

    Damage to blood vessel lining shows up in blood tests.

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  9. Humans

    Proposed cuts in planetary science take center stage

    NASA officials endure slings and arrows of outraged researchers.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Cell phone research suggests fetal risk

    Constant exposure of pregnant mice to devices’ radiation is linked to behavioral and brain abnormalities in offspring.

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  11. Earth

    Nanopollutants change blood vessel reactivity

    Tiny particles alter normal vessel functions, animal studies show.

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  12. Humans

    Evolution takes Asian refuge

    Multiple humanlike species may have arisen in cold-weather retreats and then interbred with ancient people.

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