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  1. Chemistry

    Nature’s tiniest rotor runs like clockwork

    By manipulating a tiny protein found in most living cells, researchers created a molecular rotor that can convert mechanical motion into chemical energy.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Busy hospitals may not be best choice

    A large number of heart surgeries done at a hospital doesn't always correlate with a low mortality rate from such operations at the facility.

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  3. Earth

    Ice-dammed lakes had cooling effect

    New computer simulations suggest that massive lakes in northern Russia—formed when an ice sheet blocked the northward flow of rivers about 90,000 years ago—significantly cooled the region's climate in summer months.

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  4. Humans

    Better protection from mad cow disease

    The Food and Drug Administration has announced several new measures to keep meat that's potentially infected with mad cow disease out of food supplies.