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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Health & Medicine

    Ricin poisoning may one day be treatable with new antidote

    Mice treated with a blend of antibodies survived even when treated days after exposure to ricin.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Cold plasma puts the chill on norovirus

    A new device uses cold plasma to kill foodborne pathogens.

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  3. Life

    Horses buck evolutionary ideas

    Horse evolution doesn’t fit classic scenario of trait evolution.

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  4. Life

    Malaria molecule makes blood extra-alluring to mosquitoes

    Scientists have identified a molecule that draws mosquitoes to malaria-infected blood.

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  5. Animals

    Young penguins follow false food cues

    Juvenile African penguins are being trapped in barren habitats, led astray by biological cues that are no longer reliable because of human activity.

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  6. Animals

    How hydras know where to regrow their heads

    Regenerating pond animals called hydras inherit structural patterns from their original forms, researchers find.

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  7. Animals

    How hydras know where to regrow their heads

    Regenerating pond animals called hydras inherit structural patterns from their original forms, researchers find.

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  8. Genetics

    Number of species depends how you count them

    Genetic evidence alone may overestimate numbers of species, researchers warn.

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  9. Ecosystems

    Zika virus ‘spillback’ into primates raises risk of future human outbreaks

    Spillback of Zika virus into monkeys may complicate eradication efforts.

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  10. Neuroscience

    Mysteries of time still stump scientists

    The new book "Why Time Flies" is an exploration of how the body perceives time.

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  11. Climate

    Hot nests, not vanishing males, are bigger sea turtle threat

    Climate change overheating sea turtle nestlings may be a greater danger than temperature-induced shifts in their sex ratios.

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  12. Animals

    A diet of corn turns wild hamsters into cannibals

    Female European hamsters fed a diet of corn eat their young — alive. They may be suffering from something similar to the human disease pellagra.

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