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  1. Health & Medicine

    Sense for morphine has gender gap

    Female rats have fewer brain receptors that sense morphine, making the drug less effective. The work points to the need for more research on why medicine potency can vary among people.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. 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.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Life

    Buzzing bees protect plant leaves

    Honeybee air traffic can interrupt caterpillars' relentless munching.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Earth

    Warmer oceans would fuel more thunderstorms

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