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Archaeologists are to exhume and analyze human bones found under a prehistoric monument only recently identified as a Stone Age ritual burial chamber. (bbc.co.uk)

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The Perfected Self -- Once denounced by critics as a fascist idea, "behavior modification" is making a comeback, powered by smartphone apps that aim to transform us into better versions of ourselves. (theatlantic.com)

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A lab team has developed an entirely new catalyst for separating out and capturing CO2, one that mimics a naturally occurring catalyst operating in our lungs. With this success, the lab has become a world leader in designing catalysts that mimic the behavior of natural enzymes. (phys.org)

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Researchers have engineered a device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin without the use of a hypodermic needle. The device can be programmed to deliver a range of doses to various depths — an improvement over similar systems commercially available. (mit.edu)

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A team of scientists has discovered a drug, thioridazine, successfully kills cancer stem cells in the human while avoiding the toxic side-effects of conventional cancer treatments. (medicalxpress.com)

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American Heart Association: Tasers can cause death (usatoday.com)

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Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that a small dose of a commonly used crop pesticide turns honey bees into "picky eaters" and affects their ability to recruit their nestmates to otherwise good sources of food. (phys.org)

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Bioengineers Make DNA Into a Living Flash Drive (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Researchers Find a Way to Delay Aging of Stem Cells (medicaldaily.com)

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A graphical comparison shows the amount of water on Jupiter's moon Europa as compared with Earth's water. Its subsurface ocean plus ice layer could range from 80 to 170 kilometers in average depth. (apod.nasa.gov)

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"A new and unexpected role for RNA is identified" (sciencedaily.com)

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Where did dogs come from? It turns out we don’t really know (arstechnica.com)

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Robot monitors toxic red tides (phys.org)

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Double-Walled Silicon Nanotube Battery Shows Promise (scitechdaily.com)

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Women's quest for jerks tied to hormones (mysanantonio.com)

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Burning planet leaves dust in its wake: Astronomers have for the first time, found a rocky planet that's slowly being vapourised by the blistering heat of the star it's orbiting. (abc.net.au)

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Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscle (reuters.com)

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Turtles more closely related to birds than lizards and snakes, genetic evidence shows (sciencedaily.com)

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Persistent Sensory Experience Is Good For The Aging Brain (sciguru.com)

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Calcium supplements may increase risk of heart attack (digitaljournal.com)

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Warning over deep-ocean stowaways (bbc.co.uk)

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Oh, What A Toughened Web They Weave!: "The silk that spiders use to build their webs, trap their prey, and dangle from the ceiling is one of the strongest materials known. But it turns out it's not just the material's exceptional strength that makes spiderwebs so resilient." (technologyreview.com)

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Artificial Leaf Hits Development Hurdle (scientificamerican.com)

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American Scientists Fear Losing Edge in Physics (nytimes.com)

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Comparative RNA-seq analysis of two related pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacterial strains reveals a hidden layer of divergence in the non-coding genome as well as conserved, widespread regulatory structures called 'Excludons', which mediate regulation through long non-coding antisense RNAs. (nature.com)

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