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  1. Life

    Nature’s chronic boozers

    Tree shrews pub-crawl nightly from flower to flower for fermented palm nectar.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Statins versus dementia

    Statins, developed to fight cholesterol, may also prevent some dementia, a study of older Hispanics finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Computing

    Building ‘The Matrix’

    Simulating new materials could help in building them — but only quantum simulators could fully model reality. A team reports a first step in realizing quantum simulation.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  4. Health & Medicine

    A chink in flu’s armor

    Finding the shape of a protein that enables the flu virus to replicate points to ways to combat the disease.