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Health & MedicinePain follows cycle
Estrogen fluctuations during a woman's menstrual cycle may change her perception of pain.
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Nicotine during rat youth primes brain for harder drugs
The addictive ingredient in those cigarettes in the schoolyard could prep the brain for reliance on illicit drugs.
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AstronomyGalactic spider
A Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a large galaxy in the early universe assembling from the merger of smaller ones.
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Planetary ScienceJovian storm grows stormier
Jupiter's Little Red Spot has become as strong as its big brother.
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ChemistryUnnatural success
Chemists report the first synthesis of a promising antibiotic that other researchers recently discovered in nature.