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PsychologyJoint attention provides clues to autism and cooperation
Psychologists and philosophers convene to discuss the roots of shared knowledge at a meeting in Waltham, Mass.
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Health & MedicineNobel in medicine honors discoveries of telomeres and telomerase
Three scientists share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of telomeres, which protect the ends of chromosomes, and the enzyme telomerase, which adds the structures to the ends of chromosomes.
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SpaceUniverse has more entropy than thought
New calculations suggest that the cosmos is more disorderly than thought and is a bit closer to heat death.
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ChemistryFlowerless plants make fancy amber
A new analysis suggests that ancient seed plants made a version of the fossilized resin credited to more modern relatives
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LifeMitochondria behind life span extension
Study in flies suggests low-protein diet works through power-producing organelles.