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  1. Snooze Power: Midday nap may awaken learning potential

    A brief daytime nap may block or even reverse learning declines that occur during extended practice of a perceptual task.

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  2. Physics

    Loud Loop: New explanation of whip-snapping unfurls

    The wake of a loop zooming along a whip may silence the faster-moving tip so the loop actually causes the whip's loud bang.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Eat Broccoli, Beat Bacteria: Plant compound kills microbe behind ulcers and a cancer

    A chemical abundant in broccoli and certain other vegetables kills ulcer-causing Helicobacter pylori bacteria in the laboratory and inhibits stomach cancer in mice.

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  4. Animals

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