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  1. Health & Medicine

    Redefining self, phantom self

    Amputees who feel phantom limbs can learn to do physically impossible body tricks

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  2. Health & Medicine

    Skin bacteria different in diabetic mice

    An excessive number and low diversity of skin bacteria could explain why wounds in diabetics are slow to heal

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Earth

    World’s longest cave formation still growing

    Minerals still accumulate in New Mexico’s Snowy River.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Humans

    A gene critical for speech

    Scientists argue a newly discovered stretch of DNA essential for larynx development may have allowed the evolution of language.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Life

    Humpback whale alters song if another one sings along

    Acoustical study of male songs shows first evidence of the whales responding musically to each other.