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  1. Health & Medicine

    A new gel stops mice from getting too drunk

    The iron-milk substance can break down alcohol fast and protect against liver damage in mice. Scientists hope to test the gel in people next.

    By Darren Incorvaia
  2. Cosmology

    The universe may have a complex geometry — like a doughnut

    Physicists haven’t yet ruled out the possibility that the universe has a complicated topology in which space loops back around on itself.

    By Emily Conover
  3. Health & Medicine

    Chronic asthma could be caused by cell overcrowding in the airways

    Identifying drugs to reduce the excessive expulsion of cells in the lung lining could reduce the damage of chronic asthma.