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Child with ultra-rare disease gets a treatment just for her
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Everybody tells you it takes time to adjust to the aliens’ way of life, but you don’t really understand what
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Bee hieroglyphs and more: Books in brief
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Deepest-ever samples from Earth’s mantle
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Deepfakes hawk fake drugs using scientists’ faces
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Raising the alarm about the monkeypox virus
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