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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Life

    Good night, Sloth

    First EEG of free-roaming animals finds less sleeping in the real world.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Sharing valuable real estate

    Human brains rewire when people lose a sense, but a new study of people who have regained vision shows that the rewired areas retain their old abilities.

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  3. Materials Science

    Like the Nobel, Only Norwegian

    Two weeks from now, an astrophysicist, neuroscientist, and nanoscience researcher will each be named to receive $1 million Kavli Prizes.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Drugs: Still bad for you

    Heavy cannabis smokers have increased blood levels of a protein linked to heart disease.

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  5. Humans

    BOOK REVIEW | Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

    Review by Amy Maxmen.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    BOOK REVIEW | Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life

    Review by Elizabeth Quill.

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  7. Math

    BOOK LIST | Guesstimation: Solving the World’s Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin

    Learn to use simple arithmetic to approximate anything. Princeton Univ. Press, 2008, 300 p. $19.95 GUESSTIMATION

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Testing nanoparticles

    Testing the toxicity of dozens of nanoparticles en masse may offer a faster track to medical applications.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Pollution and blood clots

    Inhaling tiny pollution particles, even at concentrations allowed in urban air, appears to increase the risk that an individual’s veins will develop potentially lethal blood clots.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Acupuncture as Placebo

    There may be some treatments for which a true placebo is unavailable.

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  11. Humans

    Future scientists

    More than 1,500 high school students will gather in Atlanta to flex their mental muscles at the 2008 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

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  12. Humans

    Science in the City

    The inaugural World Science Festival kicks off in New York May 28 and features a variety of events celebrating the role of science in all aspects of modern life, culture and the arts.

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