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  1. Health & Medicine

    Sluggish proteins may underpin aging and chronic disease

    Sticky, sluggish proteins with “proteolethargy” may be a common denominator underpinning life’s ailments.

    By Elie Dolgin
  2. Health & Medicine

    Cervical cancer deaths are plummeting among young U.S. women

    A new study shows a steep drop in cervical cancer deaths among the first cohort of women who were eligible for the HPV vaccine.

    By Andrea Tamayo
  3. Science & Society

    This ‘hidden figure’ of entomology fought for civil rights

    Margaret S. Collins, the first Black American female entomologist to earn a Ph.D., overcame sexism and racism to become a termite expert.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Neuroscience

    Like brain cells, kidney cells can form memories

    Scientists found memory’s molecular machinery at work in cells outside the nervous system.