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  1. Neuroscience

    To decode future anxiety and depression, begin with a child’s brain

    A child-friendly brain imaging technique is just one way neuroscientist Cat Camacho investigates how children learn to process emotions.

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  2. Archaeology

    Peru’s Serpent Mountain sheds its mysterious past

    No, aliens had nothing to do with a winding 1.5-kilometer-long path of holes. First used as a market, the Inca then repurposed it for tax collection.

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  3. Science & Society

    If another country tested nuclear weapons, here’s how we’d know

    President Trump has argued the U.S. should test nuclear weapons because other countries are doing it. But scientific data suggest they’re not.

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  4. Plants

    A special shape shift helps a shrub thrive in blistering heat

    A microscope reveals an algae-like adaptation that might future-proof crop photosynthesis in extreme heat.