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  1. Health & Medicine

    Obesity correlates with psychiatric disorders

    Obese adults are 25 percent more likely than normal-weight adults to develop one of four mood or anxiety disorders.

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  2. Paleontology

    Rarity of fossils of young tyrannosaurs explained

    Paleontologists have unearthed only a few juvenile tyrannosaurs, and a new study suggests why: A large percentage of these meat-eating dinosaurs, unlike many other creatures, survived into adulthood.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Device spots sponges left behind

    A device that uses radiofrequency identification can detect tagged sponges left in patients undergoing surgery.

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  4. Chemistry

    Old drug, new use

    By screening a library of more than 2,000 existing drugs, researchers have identified an antihistamine that shows activity against malaria.

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  5. Bullying leaves mark on kids’ psyches

    Being victimized by bullies at school between ages 5 and 7 promotes a unique set of behavioral and emotional problems in children, regardless of any such problems that they had before entering school.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Male circumcision could avert millions of HIV infections

    Mass circumcision of boys and men in sub-Saharan Africa could avert 2.7 million new cases of HIV infection over the next decade.

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  7. Astronomy

    Recurrent Eruption: Explosive stellar saga

    Six thermonuclear explosions have ripped off the outer layers of a dense, nearby star in the past 108 years.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Big Headache: Auras may add risk to migraines

    Women who experience migraines that are preceded by sensory irregularities face a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke.

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  9. Earth

    Sandy clues to ancient climate

    The orientation of dunes in north-central Nebraska indicates that the climate there a millennium ago was much different than it is today.

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  10. From Mind to Matter: Data analysis challenges psychokinesis

    Numerous experiments in which volunteers mentally attempt to influence the output of computers that generate random sequences of 1s and 0s have failed to show that individuals can use their minds to manipulate the physical world.

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  11. Deadly Disorder: Imagined-ugliness illness yields high suicide rate

    The suicide rate among people with a psychiatric disorder that causes them to perceive themselves as ugly is higher than that among people with major depression.

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  12. Gender Divide: Gene expression differs in males and females

    The two sexes vary in the amounts of proteins produced by thousands of genes.

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