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  1. Materials Science

    Infection, kill thyself

    Scientists devise wound dressings that trick bacteria into suicide.

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  2. Humans

    Vision gets better with the right mind-set

    Volunteers’ eyesight improved when they believed that they could see particularly well.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Body makes its own morphine

    A study in mice suggests other mammals, including humans, can produce the painkiller in their bodies.

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  4. Animals

    Chimps may be aware of others’ deaths

    Reactions of chimps to dead companions and infants suggest a basic realization of what death entails.

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  5. Life

    Paradox of dining in deep, wet mud

    A bonanza of food doesn’t necessarily result in biodiversity among deep sediment dwellers off California’s coast.