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  1. Life

    Nature’s first fiber optics could light the way to internet innovation

    Mineral crystals in heart cockles’ shells protect symbiotic algae from ultraviolet rays and could lead to innovations in internet infrastructure.

    By Elie Dolgin
  2. Health & Medicine

    Youth tobacco use has gone down, but the work isn’t over

    In 2024, tobacco use among middle and high school students reached a record low, but new vapes and other products with nicotine keep coming.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  3. Health & Medicine

    Keeping weight off may be stymied by fat cells’ ‘memory’ of obesity

    Some genetic changes in fat cells don’t go away after weight loss, a study in mice and human cells suggests.