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  1. Health & Medicine

    Pain follows cycle

    Estrogen fluctuations during a woman's menstrual cycle may change her perception of pain.

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  2. 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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  3. Astronomy

    Galactic 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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  4. Planetary Science

    Jovian storm grows stormier

    Jupiter's Little Red Spot has become as strong as its big brother.

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  5. Chemistry

    Unnatural success

    Chemists report the first synthesis of a promising antibiotic that other researchers recently discovered in nature.