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  1. Humans

    A new glimpse at the earliest Americans

    Along a stream in central Texas, archaeologists have found a campsite occupied at the tail end of the Ice Age.

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  2. Physics

    Diamond could store quantum information

    A new technique would use flaws in crystal structure to hold data.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Gene therapy for Parkinson’s advances

    Brain surgery to insert genetic cargo improves movement in some patients, a study shows.

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  4. Life

    Brain chemical influences sexual preference in mice

    Males lacking the neurotransmitter serotonin court both sexes equally, researchers are surprised to find.

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  5. Life

    Who felt it not, smelt it not

    A genetic defect in a crucial protein stops both pain and smells from reaching the brain.