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  1. Environment

    The way poison frogs keep from poisoning themselves is complicated

    Gaining resistance to one of their own toxins forced some poison dart frogs to make other genetic tweaks, too.

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  2. Neuroscience

    Gene variant linked to Alzheimer’s disease is a triple threat

    A genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease works on multiple aspects of the disease, researchers report.

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  3. Psychology

    Confusion lingers over health-related pros and cons of marijuana

    50 years ago, the effects of chronic marijuana smoking on mental health were hazy. They still are.

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  4. Earth

    Plate tectonics started at least 3.5 billion years ago

    Analyses of titanium in rock suggest plate tectonics began 500 million years earlier than thought.