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  1. Health & Medicine

    Between men and women, dyslexia takes sides

    The second day of the Society for Neuroscience meeting offers insights on dyslexia and gender, the brain on age, touch receptors under the skin and a way to reduce brain swelling after head trauma.

    By Science News
  2. Earth

    Subglacial lakes flood, glaciers speed up

    Floods that occasionally surge from immense lakes trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet can significantly affect the flow rate of overlying glaciers, a new study shows.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Health & Medicine

    Feed your brain: News from neuroscience

    Highlights from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting held in Washington, D.C.

    By Science News
  4. Health & Medicine

    Neandertals, gut microbes and mail-order ancestry tests

    Geneticists weigh in during the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.