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  1. Health & Medicine

    Bad Alzheimer’s proteins sow disorder in the brain

    Alzheimer's disease may start with a single abnormal protein that spoils other proteins nearby.

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  2. Earth

    Reading the tale of an ancient river

    Ocean-floor sediment near England holds material deposited during the last ice age by what was then Europe's largest river system.

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  3. Planetary Science

    A discordant name for a dwarf planet

    The largest known object at the fringes of the solar system, the icy body whose discovery heated up the debate about the nature of planethood, has an apt new name.

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  4. Animals

    Scent Stalking: Parasitic vine grows toward tomato odor

    A wiry orange vine finds plants to raid for nutrients by growing toward their smell.