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  1. Health & Medicine

    Exceptional memory linked to bulked-up parts of brain

    People with total recall of their life’s events have enlargement in a region also associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Health & Medicine

    Childhood sex abuse tied to heart risk

    Women victimized as children or in adolescence have increased cardiac disease in adulthood, a study shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Sleep doesn’t help old folks remember

    Reduced quality of slumber with age erases memory benefits of snoozing.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Earth

    Dirty air fosters precipitation extremes

    Changes to clouds encourage drought in dry areas and torrential downpours in moist places.