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  1. Health & Medicine

    Pockets of poor health

    Life expectancy decreases in some locations

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  2. Health & Medicine

    New approach might strike at the core of Alzheimer’s disease

    By finding a way to stick an enzyme-inhibiting molecule to the membrane of a cell, scientists may have devised the framework for an Alzheimer’s drug.

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  3. Humans

    Incan skull surgery

    Incan healers became highly adept at skull surgery techniques that developed over thousands of years in ancient Peru.

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  4. Ecosystems

    Eight-legged bags of poison

    Birds eating arachnids get high dose of toxic metal as mercury climbs up the food chain.