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The apnea and the ecstasy
Drug linked to nighttime breathing disorder
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Amino acid recipe could be right for long life
In fruit flies, a low-calorie diet with extra amounts of methionine extends lifespan without harming fertility
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Gene stops tumors, but only when it's gone
Losing one copy of DICER1 speeds cancer but cutting both copies halts spread
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FOR KIDS: Moon crash, splash
NASA scientists smash a rocket into the moon and discover water vapor and ice in a lunar crater
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FOR KIDS: Flower family knows its roots
Impatiens wildflowers seem to know who's sharing their soil
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Science & the Public: Pollutants: Up in flames
Forest fires have the potential to release toxic industrial and agricultural pollutants previously trapped on soil. After glomming onto smoke particles, these chemicals can hitch long-distance rides †sometimes across oceans †before they’re grounded and contaminate some new region, ...
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Star outweighed any known in Milky Way
Supernova was a big blast, challenging theories of how stars live and die
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Gene stops tumors only by being gone
Losing one copy of DICER1 speeds cancer but cutting both copies halts spread
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Gene stops tumors but only when it's gone
Losing one copy of DICER1 speeds cancer but cutting both halts spread
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Poached hammerhead fins traced to endangered populations
Mapping populations with DNA comparisons offers possible tool for conservation
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Elusive triangular snowflakes explained
Dust particles, wind and aerodynamics could steer some flakes toward a three-sided fate
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Loneliness is contagious, study suggests
People who feel isolated may spread mistrust of social connections
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Major eruption cooled the climate but went unnoticed
Ice-core records suggest that a major 1809 eruption cooled the climate even before the Tambora eruption and 'the year without a summer'
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World's biggest atom smasher sets first record
Large Hadron Collider generates highest-energy proton beams yet
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Discerning pancreatic cancer from pancreatitis
Test shows patients with autoimmune pancreatitis more likely to have telltale antibody
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On the Scene: Dining: Bugged on Thanksgiving
Earlier this week, I met with Zack Lemann at the Insectarium, a roughly 18-month-old Audubon museum. He gave me a behind-the-scenes tour of its dozens of living exhibits hosting insects and more -- including tarantulas and, arriving that day for their Tuesday debut, white (non-albino) ...
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Science & the Public: Beefy hormones: New routes of exposure
On any given day, some 750,000 U.S feedlots are beefing up between 11 million and 14 million head of cattle. The vast majority of these animals will receive muscle-building steroids †hormones they will eventually excrete into the environment. But traditional notions about where those ...
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Little push turns snail lefties to righties
Bumping an embryo’s cells can switch the direction of its spiral
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Bone regulators moonlight in the brain as fever inducers
Study in mice suggests proteins could be source of post-menopausal hot flashes
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A timely touch transforms speech perception
Air puffs on the hand or neck influence people’s ability to hear certain spoken sounds.
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