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Health & MedicineVaccine protects monkeys from Ebola virus
A combination of a DNA vaccine and a vaccine based on a genetically modified common cold virus enables monkeys to resist Ebola virus, the first evidence that an Ebola vaccine works in primates.
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Certain memories may rest on a good sleep
People who practice a task that demands quick visual processing perform it better on ensuing trials if they are first allowed to get some sleep.
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Planetary ScienceAn early cosmic wallop for life on Earth?
New evidence from lunar meteorites suggests that debris bombarded the moon some 3.9 billion years ago, about the same time that life may have formed on Earth.