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- Health & Medicine
Heart revival
Scientists have found a way to transform a rat's dead heart into a living one.
- Physics
Powering ball lightning
A new study might help explain what fuels bouncing balls of fire that occasionally form in nature.
- Health & Medicine
Babies prove sound learners
Scientists are gaining new insights into why babies are so good at learning languages.
- Physics
Diamond glow
Rare diamonds that glow in the dark may help scientists distinguish real gems from fake ones.
- Health & Medicine
Memory by hypnosis
Scientists are using hypnosis to better understand how the brain remembers—or doesn't.
- Health & Medicine
Sweeeet! The skinny on sugar substitutes
Millions of people use artificial sweeteners, but are they safe?
- Earth
Arctic melt
There is less ice than ever recorded in the Arctic Ocean, and scientists are concerned.
- Animals
Monkey math
Monkeys can estimate sums almost as quickly as people can. The finding provides insight into how math skills developed in the human brain.
- Space
A whole lot of nothing
Scientists have discovered a huge expanse of nothingness in outer space.
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- Space
Average galaxies
Small, faint, and sluggish, a newly discovered collection of galaxies is helping explain how larger galaxies came to be.
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