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  1. Health & Medicine

    New mutations help the H5N1 bird flu virus infect cows but not people

    The findings show how the H5N1 bird flu virus is evolving in livestock and what that may mean for human health.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Fluoride in U.S. drinking water does not reduce IQ, a new study finds

    Claims that fluoride in drinking water causes cognitive delays in kids are driving U.S. policy. A new study finds no evidence to back them.

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  3. Life

    Talking dogs and chatty cats could one day ‘speak’ in our language

    Advances in decoding animal sounds might someday make animal translators a possibility.

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  4. Science & Society

    Snippets of hair may expose chronic stress in war refugees

    Cortisol in hair shows sharper differences in chronic stress among Ukraine war refugees than standard questionnaires.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    When our minds wander to the body, it may affect mental health

    People’s minds sometimes wander to their bodily sensations, which may reduce symptoms of depression and ADHD, a new study suggests.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Supreme Court ruling on ‘conversion therapy’ puts medical talk in the hot seat

    In Chiles v. Salazar, the court ruled that a therapist has First Amendment protections. That could impact how talk therapy is regulated.

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  7. Archaeology

    The oldest known dice date back about 12,000 years in North America

    A study of ancient artifacts suggests Native American dice games began thousands of years earlier than previously documented.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Digital heart twins can guide a lifesaving procedure

    Heart replicas helped doctors spot good targets for ablation in 10 patients. Months later, all of them are free of sustained faulty rhythms.

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  9. Science & Society

    Pronatalists want more babies. Their solutions aren’t rooted in science

    Conservative pronatalists want a return to the traditional nuclear family. But that family structure is at odds with how humans evolved.

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