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Health & Medicine
A framework for growing bone
A promising new material could help encourage damaged or broken bones to grow back.
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Humans
Digging for ancient DNA
Soil has yielded identifiable DNA of animals and plants that lived up to 400,000 years ago.
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Health & Medicine
Remembering Facts and Feelings
An inner-brain region called the hippocampus may be the root of memory of both experiences and fact.
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Space
A galaxy far, far, far away
Astronomers have glimpsed some of the most distant galaxies yet found.
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Environment
Cliff snails and rock climbers
Rock climbers can accidentally wipe out communities of cliff snails.
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Space
Black holes that burp
Some black holes in outer space may actually spit out as much material as they suck in.
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Environment
The down side of keeping clean
Chemicals we use to clean and disinfect could be damaging the environment by killing off algae at the food chain's base.
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Animals
Childhood chills give bees six left feet
If the bees are raised in cold temperatures, their dancing skills seem to go down the drain.
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Brain
Watching the Brain Learn to Read
As kids learn to read, the left side of the brain gradually takes over from the right.
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Health & Medicine
Sea Kids See Clearly Underwater
Sea-gypsy children spend so much time swimming that their eyes have adapted to improve vision underwater.
By Emily Sohn