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  1. Computing

    Mapping a Medusa: The Internet spreads its tentacles

    After tracking how digital information weaves around the world, researchers have concluded that, structurally speaking, the Internet looks like a medusa jellyfish.

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  2. Crossing the Line: Technique could treat brain diseases

    With the help of a molecule from the rabies virus, scientists have for the first time selectively ferried a drug across the blood-brain barrier to treat a neurological disease in mice.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Fluorine highlights early tumors

    Microscopic, fluorine-packed particles can make small, cancerous growths easier to detect.

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  4. New player in cancer risk

    RNA snippets of a newly discovered type could be involved in the mechanisms of cancer.