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  1. Health & Medicine

    Healthy pregnancies and newborns are possible after CAR T cell therapy

    Women who received treatment for autoimmune diseases with CAR T cell therapy went on to have regular pregnancies and healthy babies.

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  2. Climate

    What’s to blame for Canada’s wildfires?

    The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won't be the last. Officials are now battling both the wildfires and misinformation.

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  3. Artificial Intelligence

    Struggling with a hard life choice? AI future selves have tips

    A chat with aged avatars of future selves can guide people paralyzed by tough decisions. The question is what information to feed the bots.

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  4. Science & Society

    The golden age of language was a few thousand years ago

    A few millennia ago, people worldwide may have spoken or signed up to 10 times as many languages as they do today.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Measles cases in the U.S. hit a new 34-year high

    The U.S. hasn't seen measles numbers like this since 1992. An epidemiologist explains what's driving the surge.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    An experimental oral vaccine may prevent invasive bacterial diarrhea

    Shigella causes about 450,000 U.S. infections each year. An experimental oral vaccine protected adults in a small human trial.

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  7. Archaeology

    Pompeii’s survivors shine in a new documentary series

    Hosted by actor Tom Hiddleston, Pompeii: Out of Time mixes facts and fiction to bring three real ancient Romans to life.

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  8. Artificial Intelligence

    AI ‘ghosts’ can comfort mourners — even when the bots get the facts wrong

    A small study suggests emotional fit, not perfect accuracy, may make chatbot versions of dead loved ones feel real.

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  9. Anthropology

    In painted caves, ancient human DNA clings to the walls

    Scientists recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls for the first time. Refined, the method could help link prehistoric paintings to their makers.

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