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Giant galaxy-packed filament revealed
Astronomers have discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars The filament is the first structure of its kind spied in a critical era of cosmic buildup when colossal collections of galaxies called superclusters began to take shape The glowing galactic bridge offers astronomers a unique opportunity to explore how galaxies evolve and merge to form superclusters

Dancing droplets reveal physics at work
Magnetic fields can deflect liquid oxygen

Coffee gives jolt to life span
Java consumption linked to slightly increased longevity

Humanmade pollutants may be driving Earth's tropical belt expansion: May impact large-scale atmospheric circulation
Black carbon aerosols (tiny carbon particles produced from biomass burning and incomplete combustion of fossil fuels) and tropospheric ozone, both humanmade pollutants emitted predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere's low- to mid-latitudes, are most likely pushing the boundary of the tropics further poleward in that hemisphere The researchers caution that an unabated tropical belt expansion would impact large-scale atmospheric circulation, especially in the subtropics and mid-latitudes

Unhurtful Thoughts: A Preoccupied Brain Produces Pain-Killing Compounds
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CPRIT Leaders Defend $20 Million Incubator Grant
Contrary to scientists' views, MD Anderson drug discovery institute is "not a research program"

Slo-mo microbes extend the frontiers of life
Community in the deep seabed uses so little oxygen that it is no longer clear where the lower bound for life lies

Speaking science to power
EPA researcher gets her job back for the second time

'Good' cholesterol doctrine may be flawed
NOT SO GOOD New research is challenging the belief that higher levels of 'good' cholesterol automatically boost cardiovascular health

Damaged connections in Phineas Gage's brain: Famous 1848 case of man who survived accident has modern parallel
In 1848, Phineas Gage survived an accident that drove an iron rod through his head Researchers, for the first time, used images of Gages skull combined with modern-day brain images to suggest there was extensive damage to the white matter pathways that connected various regions of his brain

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