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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Tech

    Plastic implant replaces three-quarters of man’s skull

    The polymer cranium was made using a 3-D printer.

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  2. Humans

    Intel Science Talent Search finalists show off their work

    Young investigators do real research in bedrooms and garages.

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  3. Tech

    Facebook ‘likes’ can reveal users’ politics, sexual orientation, IQ

    With data from thousands of volunteers, researchers connect social media activity to personal traits.

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  4. Humans

    Ancient people and Neandertals were extreme travelers

    Stone Age folk were built for journeying farther than even the most active individuals today.

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  5. Humans

    Baseball’s resident physicist

    Baseball’s resident physicist.

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  6. Humans

    Of Mice and Man

    The lab mouse is being remodeled to better mimic how humans respond to disease.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Immune cells chow down on living brain

    Microglia prune developing rat and monkey brains by eating neural stem cells.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Baby may be cured of HIV

    Only viral traces remain after prompt treatment of newborn, suggesting no working virus is left in the girl’s body.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    News in Brief: HIV may increase heart attack risk

    A large study of veterans shows connection between HIV and heart attack in men.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Fish oil component boosts newborn health

    Pregnant women who took an omega-3 fatty acid supplement had bigger babies.

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  11. Psychology

    Video games take aim at dyslexia

    Playing action video games gives a literacy boost to dyslexic children who read poorly, a disputed study suggests.

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  12. Tech

    Rats do tasks while connected brain-to-brain

    Signals transmitted from one animal to another seem to share information, but usefulness of findings questioned.

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