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  1. Health & Medicine

    Gut-brain communication failure may spur overeating

    Restoring a depleted molecule in obese mice repaired their abnormal response to food.

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  2. Life

    Lab-grown heart has rhythm

    Researchers transform stem cells into contracting cardiac cells.

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  3. Animals

    Antarctic waters may shelter wrecks from shipworms

    Ocean currents and polar front form 'moat' that keeps destructive mollusks at bay.

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  4. Quantum Physics

    Quantum teleportation approaches the computer chip

    Researchers speedily transmit information from one tiny circuit to another on solid-state device.

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  5. Psychology

    Mental disorder seen as ‘badness, not sickness’

    Health workers tend to consider borderline personality disorder a tag for patients who are difficult or impossible to treat.