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Health & MedicineDrug breaks up Alzheimer’s-like deposits in mice
Recent failed trials of a similar approach in humans fuel skepticism that patients will benefit.
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SpaceLHC sees odd behavior in superhot particle soup
Coordinated motion in debris from lead-proton collisions may yield clues about quark-gluon plasma.
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SpaceExtraterrestrial chorus heard in radiation belts
Van Allen probes capture sound of electromagnetic disturbances in Earth’s magnetosphere.
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Health & MedicineSmoking hurts teen girls’ bones
Adolescents who use cigarettes seem to accumulate less bone mineral than those who don’t.
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LifeContender for world’s oldest dinosaur identified
An African specimen suggests the lineage may have arisen 15 million years earlier than thought.