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  1. Troubling Treat: Guam mystery disease from bat entrée?

    A famous unsolved medical puzzle of why a neurological disease spiked on Guam may hinge on the local tradition of serving boiled bat.

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  2. Chemistry

    Diamond in the rough

    Researchers have found a collection of previously undiscovered diamondlike compounds in oil.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Bone Builder: New drug could heal hard-to-mend fractures

    A synthetic compound can heal broken bones that are so damaged they don't knit on their own, a study in rats and dogs shows.

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  4. Materials Science

    Melt-Resistant Metals: Carbon coating keeps atoms in order

    Shrink-wrapped in carbon, nanoscale metal chunks melt at extraordinarily high temperatures, suggesting carbon coatings as a route to higher heat resistance for materials and devices.