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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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Fossils
Fossil fly from Antarctica
A tiny fly fossil has turned up about 500 kilometers from the South Pole.
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Earth
Riding to Earth’s core
A scientist has thought up a way to send a probe deep into Earth.
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Tech
Eating up foul sewage smells
Bacteria can break down the chemical responsible for sewage's rotten-egg smell.
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Earth
Quick quake alerts
A system of detectors could provide a few seconds warning that an earthquake is coming.
By Emily Sohn