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  1. Health & Medicine

    When preventing HIV, bacteria in the vagina matter

    Vaginal bacteria affect how well microbicide gels used to prevent HIV work.

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  2. Neuroscience

    Brains encode faces piece by piece

    Cells in monkey brains build up faces by coding for different characteristics.

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  3. Physics

    LIGO snags another set of gravitational waves

    Two black holes stirred up the third set of gravitational waves ever detected.

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  4. Archaeology

    Peru’s plenty brought ancient human migration to a crawl

    Ancient Americans reached Peru 15,000 years ago and stayed put, excavations suggest.

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  5. Planetary Science

    Juno spacecraft reveals a more complex Jupiter

    NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back unexpected details about Jupiter, giving scientists their first intimate look at the giant planet.