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  1. Biofilm-producing bacteria could stabilize buildings

    Bacteria that ooze a sticky matrix could help stabilize the soil beneath structures in earthquake-prone areas.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Heart attack treatment: Better late than never

    A new study contradicts the notion that heart attacks run their course in less than a day and suggests that even delayed treatment can preserve endangered heart tissue.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Cocaine abusers get more heart aneurysms

    Regular cocaine users are about four times as likely as nonusers to have an aneurysm in a coronary artery.

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  4. Physics

    Probing chemical signatures in an earthy way

    Scientists have performed nuclear magnetic resonance analysis using Earth's magnetic field.