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  1. Humans

    Women: Where are your patents?

    Business-school researchers find a big gender gap among academic life scientists in patenting rates.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Health & Medicine

    Forewarning of preeclampsia

    Scientists have found an early warning sign of preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication marked by high blood pressure. Pregnant women with too much of a protein called soluble endoglin in their blood have a heightened risk of preeclampsia, the researchers say. Endoglin normally sits on the surface of blood vessels, where it plays a role in […]

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Chemistry

    Better protection

    A new molecular catalyst shortens a widely used reaction into a one-step process, with a bonus: It makes the reaction’s products into one of two possible mirror-image forms.