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  1. Neuroscience

    Electrode turns consciousness on and off

    Woman lost awareness, though appeared awake, when her brain was stimulated near an area called the claustrum.

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  2. Life

    Domesticated animals’ juvenile appearance tied to embryonic cells

    Mild defects in embryonic cells could explain physical similarities along with tameness across domesticated species.

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  3. Anthropology

    Clovis people may have hunted elephant-like prey, not just mammoths

    The ancient American Clovis culture started out hunting elephant-like animals well south of New World entry points, finds in Mexico suggest.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    HIV reemerges in ‘cured’ child

    The discovery spotlights limits in detecting the clandestine germ and raises questions about whether HIV can ever truly be cured.