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Health & Medicine

Experimental drug fends off emphysema in mice

Mice exposed to cigarette smoke and then ed the drug and fended of emphysema, suggesting the edible drug might help ex-smokers.

Life

Buzzing bees protect plant leaves

Honeybee air traffic can interrupt caterpillars' relentless munching.

Earth

Warmer oceans would fuel more thunderstorms

Satellite data reveal more thunderheads forming as tropical sea-surface temperatures rise.

Humans

Taking trophy heads close to home

Members of the prehistoric Nasca culture in southern Peru took trophy heads from their own people rather than from foreigners captured in wars or raids, a new biochemical analysis suggests.