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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Health & Medicine

    PHOTOCAP: Deadly bugs

    Toxin-producing E. coli strain causes outbreak in Germany.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Drug prevents some breast cancers

    A hormone-blocking compound can waylay some malignancies in healthy women who are deemed at risk.

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  3. Humans

    Site hints at Asian roots for human genus

    An early Homo species inhabited the Caucasus region 1.85 million years ago, casting doubt on its proposed African origin.

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  4. Humans

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    Lewis and Clark’s gale encounter, nixing college lectures, divorce’s toll on kids and more in this week’s news

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  5. Tech

    Information flow can reveal dirty deeds

    An analysis of Enron e-mails reveals that corrupt networks have a distinctive shape.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    A year adds up to big changes in brain

    Third grade brings big shifts in how kids use their heads to solve math problems.

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  7. Humans

    Association for Psychological Science meeting

    News includes likeable look-alikes, seeing clearer through meditation and bouncing back from bad events.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Inside Job

    Teams of microbes pull strings in the human body.

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  9. Humans

    Counterfeit Crackdown

    New scientific tools help tell fake meds from the real thing.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    No link between viral suspect and chronic fatigue, plus reading minds, colored glasses for migraines and more in this week’s news.

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  11. Humans

    National Academies Press offers free downloads

    On June 2, the National Academies Press opened up its library to all of us. It now permits free downloads of PDFs for all of its volumes by anyone willing to free up the gigabytes on his or her hard drive.

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  12. Humans

    Ancestral gals roamed, guys stayed home

    Females in two ancient hominid species may have left their home groups to find mates.

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