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  1. Health & Medicine

    Dopamine fends off zzzzz’s

    A reward chemical in the brain helps keep sleep-deprived people awake.

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  2. Physics

    Short-lived particle questions long-lived theory

    In sifting through the ashes of a short-lived subatomic particle called the kaon, physicists are slowly accumulating new hints that the theory of elementary particles might one day have to be modified.

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  3. Chemistry

    FBI reveals more details of anthrax investigation

    A panel of scientists involved in the anthrax investigations released new details.

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  4. Animals

    I, Magpie

    Some magpies recognize themselves in mirrors, indicating that a basic form of self-recognition evolved in one family of birds.