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  1. Health & Medicine

    Short bursts of physical activity cut women’s risk of heart attack

    Even just a few minutes of vigorous movement per day lowers the risk of serious cardiovascular problems, like heart attack and heart failure, in women.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    A squid-inspired medical device could reduce the need for needles

    The device, which directs a liquid by mimicking squids’ high-pressure jets, could provide alternative delivery methods for injectable drugs.

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  3. Readers react to a rare visual disorder, microplastics in arteries and more

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  4. Animals

    Some mysteries remain about why dogs wag their tails

    Wagging is a form of communication, with different wags meaning different things, but scientists know little about the behavior’s evolution in dogs.

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  5. Animals

    A ‘talking’ ape’s death signals the end of an era

    Kanzi showed apes have the capacity for language, but in recent years scientists have questioned the ethics of ape experiments.

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  6. Neuroscience

    Hair pulling prompts one of the fastest known pain signals

    The ouch of hair pulling is transmitted with the help of a protein used to sense light touches. These details could lead to new treatments.

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  7. Neuroscience

    ‘Then I Am Myself the World’ ponders what it means to be conscious

    Neuroscientist Christof Koch’s new book discusses how information integration in the brain leads to consciousness and whether AI will ever be self-aware.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Honeybees can “smell” lung cancer

    Bees can detect the scent of lung cancer in lab-grown cells and synthetic breath. One day, bees may be used to screen people’s breath for cancer.

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  9. Animals

    Here are 5 questions about the mystery dog illness making news

    Experts suspect a perfect storm of conditions, rather than a new bug, is what’s driving “atypical kennel cough” cases in dogs across the United States.

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  10. Animals

    American burying beetles are making a comeback in Nebraska

    Thanks to decades of conservation to restore private grasslands, numbers of the threatened insect are on the rise in the Loess Canyons.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    An mRNA cancer vaccine may offer long-term protection 

    A vaccine kept patients free of pancreatic cancer for years, yet new reports say the NIH is advising against mentioning mRNA tech in grants.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Bird flu can infect cats. What does that mean for their people?

    Pet owners can take precautions to avoid H5N1, such as keeping cats indoors and making sure they don’t eat raw meat or milk.

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