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We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Life

    Nouveaux Antennas

    A single hairlike appendage may allow a cell to sense the outside world

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  2. Genetics

    Genetic mutations may explain a brain cancer’s tenacity

    DNA damage may transform adult cells in glioblastoma, making the malignancy harder to kill.

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  3. Neuroscience

    Drug helps put bad memories to rest

    A brain injection before sleep aids fearful mice — and might lead to a PTSD treatment strategy.

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  4. Neuroscience

    Teens can keep their cool to win rewards

    An unexpected experimental result suggests adolescent impulsivity is not inevitable.

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  5. Life

    Thyroid in a dish

    Stem cells assemble themselves into a working gland.

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  6. Animals

    Early arthropod had a fancy brain

    A 520-million-year-old fossil of a segmented animal shows that sophisticated central nervous systems are surprisingly ancient.

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  7. Life

    Research in cell communication system wins 2012 chemistry Nobel

    G protein-coupled receptors relay messages from other cells and the environment into the cell's interior.

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  8. Life

    Pulsing blob makes memories sans brain

    Slime molds create a GPS navigation system based on their own gooey trails.

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  9. Neuroscience

    To understand meetings of minds, scientists should study brains in the wild

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  10. Life

    2012 medicine Nobel honors research on reprogramming adult cells

    John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka share this year's prize.

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  11. Microbes

    Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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  12. Life

    Scent Into Action

    Rodent responses to a whiff of predator may offer clues to instinct in the brain.

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