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- Health & Medicine
Mixing Vessel: Air pollution helps cholesterol clog arteries
When paired with a diet high in fat, breathing polluted air on a regular basis accelerates the accumulation of dangerous plaques in arteries.
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Pumping Out Hope: Stem cells secrete brain-preserving protein
Researchers have turned stem cells into living drug pumps that could eventually treat Parkinson's disease.
- Paleontology
Mammoth Findings: Asian elephant is closest living kin
DNA studies suggest that the woolly mammoth is more closely related to the Asian elephant than to the African elephant.
- Humans
Science News of the Year 2005
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2005.
