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  1. Life

    Body attacks lab-made stem cells

    In mice, the immune system targets and destroys reprogrammed adult skin cells, raising questions about their medical potential.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Gravely damaged brains have ‘bottleneck’

    A failure in electrical signaling may distinguish patients in vegetative states.

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  3. Humans

    Stone Age cold case baffles scientists

    Stone-tool makers who hunkered down near Arctic Circle left uncertain clues to their identity.

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  4. Life

    New fungi the dark matter of mushrooms

    Scientists see the first images of an ancient lineage of microbes that can’t be grown in the lab.

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  5. Humans

    Networks dominated by rule of the few

    Certain systems, including social hubs like Facebook, can be directed from relatively few control points.