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  1. Health & Medicine

    Statin reduces dementia risk

    A popular anticholesterol drug reduces older adults' chances of developing dementia.

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  2. Physics

    Slick serpent

    Oil poured into a pan of the same liquid drags along a surrounding air layer, which can make it skip in and out of the surface before it mixes in.

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  3. Astronomy

    Heavenly Chemistry: Astronomers announce astrophysical anion

    Astronomers' discovery of a rare negatively charged organic molecule sheds light on conditions in interstellar gas clouds, where amino acids, sugars, and other prebiologic compounds form.

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  4. Sweet Gatekeeper: Receptor depends on sugar and water

    Water and sugar molecules play a previously unsuspected role in the way that a ubiquitous receptor passes chemical messages between cells.