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Health & MedicinePutting African sleeping sickness to bed
Experiments in mice find a protein that could lead to a safer and more effective treatment for parasitic disease.
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Planetary ScienceWarmth in the dark age
Lower reflectivity kept Earth from freezing under a fainter young sun.
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LifeTortoise see, tortoise do
Though they rarely meet, solitary creatures can pick up skills by example.
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Planetary ScienceSigns of giant comet impacts found in cores
An uptick in ammonium may be evidence of a 50-billion-ton strike at the end of the ice age.
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PhysicsLHC revs up
The world’s most powerful atom smasher achieves its most energetic collisions yet.