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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Humans

    AAAS board defends climate scientists

    “AAAS vigorously opposes attacks on researchers that question their personal and professional integrity or threaten their safety based on displeasure with their scientific conclusions.” This declaration was contained in a 400-word denunciation of attacks on climate scientists and the politicization of climate science that was issued June 29 by the organization's board of directors.

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  2. Life

    Alzheimer’s plaques due to purging flaw

    A gene controls the clearance of a protein that accumulates in the brains of people with the condition.

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  3. Humans

    Humans

    Practice alone doesn’t make perfect, plus healing from genocide and a baby’s-eye view of failure in this week’s news.

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  4. Earth

    BPA makes male mice less macho

    Studies show that exposures in the womb or during adolescence can erase masculine habits or reverse sexes' behavior.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Bright minds tackle global health

    Nobel laureates, young scientists meet in Germany to exchange ideas for fighting disease.

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  6. Humans

    Bone may display oldest art in Americas

    A mammoth engraved on a fossil may date from at least 13,000 year ago.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Snakebite treatment buys time

    An ointment that slows the transport of venom from the bite site to the vital organs could keep victims alive long enough to reach medical care.

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  8. Psychology

    Math disability tied to bad number sense

    Children who don’t grasp arithmetic at all, unlike below-average students, have little feel for estimating quantities.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Sight restored after 55 years, plus hockey-checking injuries, statins' diabetes link and more in this week's news.

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  10. Life

    From Z’s to A’s

    Two new studies show sleep is crucial to learning.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Food choices matter in weight control

    Potatoes and sugary soft drinks add pounds, a long-term analysis shows; fruit, yogurt and nuts help shed them.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Brain has two slots for working memory

    The left and right hemispheres have equal and independent capacity, monkey study finds.

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