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  1. Health & Medicine

    Malaria drug boosts recovery rates

    Adding the herbal-extract drug artesunate to standard malaria treatment reduces the relapse rate, even in areas where the malaria parasite is resistant to standard drugs.

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  2. Materials Science

    Light whips platinum into shape

    Scientists are exploiting the molecular machinery behind photosynthesis to create unique nanostructures out of platinum.

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  3. Chemistry

    Nature’s tiniest rotor runs like clockwork

    By manipulating a tiny protein found in most living cells, researchers created a molecular rotor that can convert mechanical motion into chemical energy.

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    The thought that anyone, Eskimo or otherwise, would willingly kill a member of an endangered species that may have been swimming when George Washington was still alive makes me sick at heart.