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  1. Anthropology

    Cremated remains reveal hints of who is buried at Stonehenge

    Ancient stone monument held burials of people from more than 200 kilometers away, a new study suggests.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Google Glass could help children with autism socialize with others

    Google Glass has a new lease on life, and this time it’s helping children with autism improve their social skills, a pilot trial suggests.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Newfound airway cells may breathe life into tackling cystic fibrosis

    A newly discovered cell in the lining of the airways is the primary site of activity for the gene that, when defective, causes cystic fibrosis.

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  4. Animals

    With one island’s losses, the king penguin species shrinks by a third

    Once home to the largest known colony of king penguins, Île aux Cochons has lost most of its birds for unknown reason.

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  5. Earth

    Rare blue diamonds are born deep in Earth’s mantle

    Rare blue diamonds are among the deepest ever found, and hint at possible pathways for recycling of ocean crust in the mantle.

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  6. Particle Physics

    In a first, physicists accelerate atoms in the Large Hadron Collider

    Ionized lead atoms took a spin around the world’s biggest particle accelerator.

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  7. Astronomy

    How the Parker probe was built to survive close encounters with the sun

    Scientists had to get creative in testing the technology for the Parker Solar Probe, using huge mirrors, dust tunnels and even reams of paper.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Soccer headers may hurt women’s brains more than men’s

    Women sustain more damage from heading soccer balls than men, a brain scan study suggests.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    A medical mystery reveals a new host for the rat lungworm parasite

    Doctors report that A. cantonensis was transmitted to two people who ate raw centipedes, but you can get it from other creatures as well.

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  10. Neuroscience

    Anxiety in monkeys is linked to hereditary brain traits

    A key brain connection may be behind childhood anxiety, brain scans of monkeys suggest.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    This tick may play a part in gumming up your arteries

    Having antibodies to a sugar tied to red-meat allergy is associated with more plaque in the artery walls, a small study shows.

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  12. Anthropology

    Conflict reigns over the history and origins of money

    Thousands of years ago, money took different forms as a means of debt payment, archaeologists and anthropologists say.

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