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  1. Enzyme is target in parasite

    The flatworm that causes the tropical disease schistosomiasis may be vulnerable to drugs that neutralize an essential enzyme in the parasite.

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  2. Physics

    Pas de deux for a three-scoop particle

    Physicists have discovered the first particle containing one member of each of the three families of quarks.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Linking stress and senility

    A gene that's active in the brain may help explain why emotional stress seems to increase a person's likelihood of getting Alzheimer's disease.

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  4. Humans

    Letters from the July 7, 2007, issue of Science News

    Hex sine? The NASA researchers baffled by the hexagonal shape in Saturn’s soupy atmosphere at its northern pole (“A hexagon on the ringed planet,” SN: 4/28/07, p.