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What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt. 2)

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A graphical illustration showing a number of well-known stars in the present-day universe, along with the edge of a far bigger star.
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Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars

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Illustration in which a forest scene is mirrored in a person’s right eye while the left eye shows a clock.
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How the Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions

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What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer.

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New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI

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Illustration of butterflies with similar wing-color patterns holding bundles of DNA.
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How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations

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A bright purple splotch surrounded by concentric purple rings.
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Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Hints of Dark Matter

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Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing' Imaginable

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A video in which a metallic cube floats above a dark disk as liquid nitrogen evaporates around them
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High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last

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A frog leaps out of the frame of the video.
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Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping

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A human figure in a brain landscape stands at a fork in a road. One way goes to pleasant surroundings, the other to an unpleasant place.
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A Good Memory or a Bad One? One Brain Molecule Decides.

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Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple

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Video in which a white circle appears in the center of a blue starry field and grows until whiteness engulfs the whole image.
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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

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A blueprint-like rendering of the biomechanics of a bird wing.
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Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight

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Sculpted, latticed structure of a grain of olive pollen.
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How the ‘Diamond of the Plant World’ Helped Land Plants Evolve

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Micrograph of a neuron showing aggregations of tau protein.
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Protein Blobs Linked to Alzheimer’s Affect Aging in All Cells

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