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We finally understand how Tylenol blocks pain, women’s pelvises are evolving with medicine, a giant new telescope just saw first light, and your brain may literally be keeping a sleep debt ledger.

SOURCES

• We may finally know how Tylenol works — and it's not how we thought | Live Science
• Women's pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth? | New Scientist
• Recent evolutionary decrease in the human pelvis size | Nature Portfolio
• Vera Rubin Scientists Reveal Telescope’s First Images | New York Times
• Your brain tracks your sleep debt – and now we may know how | New Scientist
• Sleep need–dependent plasticity of a thalamic circuit promotes homeostatic recovery sleep | Science

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