News
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Intimate violence gets female twist
An analysis of data on relationship violence in the general population finds that, excluding murder and sexual assaults, women prove slightly more likely than men to commit one or more aggressive acts against a partner—though men are more likely than women to inflict injuries that require medical help.
- Chemistry
Nobel prize recognizes future for plastics
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three researchers for the discovery and development of plastics that conduct electricity.
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Pioneers of brain-cell signaling earn Nobel
Three neuroscientists who delved into the ways brain cells receive and respond to signals from other cells won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
