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  1. Health & Medicine

    Drug-Resistant Flu Detected: Japanese strains appear transmissible

    For the first time, researchers report drug resistance in type B influenza virus and say the drug-resistant strain may jump from person to person.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Not-So-Artful Dodgers: Countering drug tests with niacin proves dangerous

    Attempts to cleanse illicit drugs from one's body by taking large doses of niacin can cause life-threatening reactions.

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  3. Physics

    Formula for Panic: Crowd-motion findings may prevent stampedes

    The physics of pedestrian flows could help prevent stampedes such as the one that killed hundreds during a pilgrimage to Mecca in 2006.

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  4. Mushroom Boom: Hobby records show climate-change boost

    Mushrooms in England are starting to pop up earlier and staying around later than they used to, according to 55 years of amateur naturalists' records.

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  5. Chemistry

    That’s a Wrap: Polymer coatings fortify pancreas cells

    A technique that encapsulates cells in polymer might one day benefit people who receive pancreas-cell transplants for diabetes.

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  6. Anthropology

    Asian Trek: Fossil puts ancient humans in Far East

    A 40,000-year-old partial human skeleton from a Chinese cave intensifies a debate over whether Stone Age people dispersing from Africa interbred with humanlike species that they encountered.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Meningitis vaccine stops ear infections

    A vaccine for meningitis and pneumonia also prevents many childhood ear infections and the complications that they cause.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Patches take sting out of canker sores

    Small patches that exude licorice extract can speed healing of canker sores.

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  9. Earth

    On the move

    A new study suggests how prions, the infectious agents that cause such disorders as chronic wasting disease, behave in soil and landfills.

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  10. Earth

    New solutions for unused drugs

    Pharmacists and federal scientists have launched a program to discourage consumers from flushing unused prescription drugs down the toilet.

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  11. Earth

    Freeze-thaw cycles: How not to mix soil

    The repeated cycles of ground freezing and thawing that occur in many places don't do a surprising poor job of churning the soil.

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  12. Kill-save gene combo might fight malaria

    A technique that might someday enlist mosquitoes in the fight against malaria has passed an early test.

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