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1. For these critically endangered marine turtles, climate change could be a knockout blow
   Researchers suggest that projected increases in air temperatures, rainfall inundation and blistering solar radiation could significantly reduce hawksbill hatching success at a selection of major nesting beaches.

   
2. Can stem cells help a diseased heart heal itself? Researcher achieves important milestone
   Scientists have taken an important step toward the goal of making diseased hearts heal themselves -- a new model that would reduce the need for bypass surgery, heart transplants or artificial pumping devices.

   
3. Self-perception and reality seem to line-up when it comes to judging our own personality
   When it comes to personality, it turns out your peers probably think the same way about you as you do about yourself.

   
4. Early physical therapy can reduce risk, amount of long-term opioid use, study finds
   Patients who underwent physical therapy soon after being diagnosed with pain in the shoulder, neck, low back or knee were approximately 7 to 16 percent less likely to use opioids in the subsequent months, according to a new study.

   
5. HIV vaccine protects non-human primates from infection
   New research shows that an experimental HIV vaccine strategy works in non-human primates. In the study, rhesus macaque monkeys produced neutralizing antibodies against one strain of HIV that resembles the resilient viral form that most commonly infects people, called a Tier 2 virus.