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  1. Psychology

    Groups recall travel details better than loners

    Small teams of people can recite key information from public announcements better than any one person.

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  2. Neuroscience

    Brain stimulation restores movement in rats with spinal cord damage

    Implanted electrodes might help paralyzed humans walk.

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  3. Quantum Physics

    Single electron caught in action

    Researchers have found a way to isolate the behavior of one particle.

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  4. Anthropology

    Hunting boosts lizard numbers in Australian desert

    Reptiles prefer to live in places aboriginal people have burned.

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  5. Neuroscience

    3-D effects may require one eye only

    Peering through a peephole can bring flat images to life.

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  6. Animals

    Amphibian killer forces immune-cell suicides

    Fungal menace to frogs and their kin shuts down key parts of the animals’ defenses.

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  7. Neuroscience

    Sleep allows brain to wash out junk

    Discovery of fluids flowing in mice while they slumber could lead to better treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.

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  8. Anthropology

    Fossil skull points to single root for human evolution

    New find suggests that humankind’s origins trace to an ancient species that spread from Africa to Asia.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Hopes raised for Ebola treatment

    Most monkeys given dual therapy survive infection with lethal virus.

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  10. Animals

    Lurking males lead to hard-to-fertilize mouse eggs

    Mixed-sex society raises resistance to sperm in what may be a long-running arms race between the sexes over fertilization.

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  11. Physics

    New limit placed on physics constant

    An analysis of how much the fine structure constant varies with the density of matter may help scientists determine whether the parameter changes with time.

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  12. Life

    Flashy drug spotlights infection

    Doctors may be able to watch for invading microbes with a fluorescent antibiotic.

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