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MathHiding patients in plain sight
A new technique could help make medical records available to researchers without compromising privacy.
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Health & MedicineMapping the fruit fly brain
A new digital atlas could reveal how 100,000 neurons work together.
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PhysicsColliding dust grains charge each other up
Physicists propose a way that cloud particles can electrify themselves.
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LifeBriny deep basin may be home to animals thriving without oxygen
Creatures living deep in the Mediterranean without oxygen would be a remarkable first, biologists say.
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SpaceNewfound neighbor to solar system is a cool slacker
Researchers have found the closest brown dwarf to Earth and the coolest yet seen, raising the possibility that the nearest starlike body to the solar system may be a brown dwarf rather than a star.