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  1. Health & Medicine

    Psoriasis drugs show promise

    Two new drugs attack psoriasis by inhibiting interleukin-17, a focal player in the troublesome skin disease.

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  2. Humans

    New ancestor grasped at walking

    By 3.4 million years ago, two human relatives built differently for upright movement inhabited East Africa.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Slacker rat, worker rat

    Rodent work ethic, like people’s, comes in two types.

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  4. Life

    Fossils show signs of earliest burrowing

    Worms’ seafloor tunneling more than a half-billion years ago could have stirred up evolutionary forces.

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  5. Earth

    Venice falling

    Compacting soil means the flood-prone city continues to sink.

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  6. Physics

    Order from disorder

    Collective motion emerges spontaneously in wiggling protein strands.

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  7. Life

    The farther the better for corals after oil spill

    Deepwater organisms may be slow to recover from Gulf accident.

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  8. Chemistry

    Protons on the move find novel molecular route

    Hydrogen bonds aren’t the only means of proton travel to another molecule, a study finds.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Fatty diet leads to fat-loving brain cells

    A study in mice links a high-fat diet to changes in the brain that might encourage weight gain.

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  10. Life

    Gene might help sponges see

    Scientists provide a glimpse at how multicellular organisms handle light.

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  11. Space

    Vesta seems more planet than asteroid

    Spacecraft explorations reveal a layered, beat-up celestial body.

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  12. Life

    Making mouse memories

    Neuroscientists create a synthetic recollection of fear in rodents.

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