Band-aid made of youthful protein stops wounds from scarring (newscientist.com)

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A hormone released during exercise, Irisin, may protect the brain against Alzheimer’s disease, and explain the positive effects of exercise on mental performance. In mice, learning and memory deficits were reversed by restoring the hormone. People at risk could one day be given drugs to target it. (newscientist.com)

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First Americans: were they Iberian, not Siberian? (2012, another from before the crackdown) (newscientist.com)

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Device that works like a lung makes clean fuel from water. When the team ran the reaction through the lung-like architecture for 250 hours, it retained 97 per cent of its catalytic activity. A traditional carbon-based membrane decayed to 74 per cent of its activity over just 75 hours. (newscientist.com)

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Mystery of why Stone Age villagers spent so much time underwater (Paywalled, but good info hidden in the first bit) (newscientist.com)

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Traces of mystery ancient humans found lurking in our genomes (newscientist.com)

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau (newscientist.com)

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WOW! Massive Ocean Discovered Towards Earth's Core (newscientist.com)

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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing (newscientist.com)

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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing (newscientist.com)

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