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BiologyGene therapy treats muscle-wasting disease in dogs: diseased dogs treated with a single infusion of the corrective therapy were indistinguishable from normal animals one year later. (eurekalert.org)
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PaleontologyBirds Evolved From Dinosaurs In a 'Supercharged' Evolutionary Surge (motherboard.vice.com)
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HealthHPV, a sexually transmitted virus, can cause deadly cervical cancer and head/neck cancer. In Australia, a public health campaign which gave HPV vaccines to girls and women for free has dramatically reduced the prevalence of HPV in the public, even among men who were never vaccinated. (acsh.org)
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EnvironmentStudy Finds Massive Rogue Waves Aren’t as Rare as Previously Thought. One of the first waves the researchers observed was one of the steepest ever recorded, a 100-meter wide “wall of water” moving at 40mph and may have reached heights greater than the recorded height of 49 feet above mean sea level. (rsmas.miami.edu)
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EnvironmentEarth's oceans are warming 13% faster than thought, and accelerating (theguardian.com)
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Animal ScienceDogs, Toddlers Show Similarities in Social Intelligence. Dogs and children similarly outperformed chimps on cooperative communication tasks, and researchers observed similar patterns of variation in performance between individual dogs and between individual children. (sciencenewsline.com)
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Earth ScienceIt’s safe to return to Fukushima, study suggests | Science (sciencemag.org)
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Animal ScienceResearchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out They Argue — A Lot (smithsonianmag.com)
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Social ScienceIn a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, scientists surveyed viewers of internet porn and identified that these individuals cluster in three distinct behavioral patterns: recreational (75.5%), highly distressed non-compulsive (12.7%), and compulsive (11.8%). (inverse.com)
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NeuroscienceStudy suggests alcohol may actually protect eyewitness memory. (theconversation.com)
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Animal ScienceThinking chickens: a review of cognition, emotion, and behavior in the domestic chicken (link.springer.com)
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Animal ScienceInsightful problem solving and emulation in brown capuchin monkeys (link.springer.com)
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CancerCBS News poll: Majority of U.S. families touched by cancer (cbsnews.com)
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AstronomySpeeding stars are evidence our galaxy’s spiral arms will disappear (knowridge.com)
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HealthFlame retardant chemicals added to furniture, mattresses, carpeting, electronics and vehicles may affect social behavior in young children leading to behaviors such as aggression, defiance, hyperactivity, inattention and bullying, finds an OSU study published today in Environmental Health. (oregonstate.edu)
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MedicineA UA assistant professor who wanted to know why his brother's headaches got better amongst trees, tested his theory by exposing rats with neuropathic pain to green LED light, and found that they showed more tolerance for thermal and tactile stimulus than rats that were not exposed. (uanews.arizona.edu)
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