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  1. Chemistry

    Buckymedicine

    Scientists are turning carbon-cage molecules called fullerenes into drug candidates and medical diagnostic tools.

    By Jessica Gorman
  2. Astronomy

    Let There Be Spin

    X-ray outbursts from two different pairs of stars in our Milky Way are providing clues about how the most rapidly rotating stars in the universe got their spin.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Physics

    Double or Nothing

    The hunt for a rare, hypothetical nuclear transformation known as neutrinoless double-beta decay may answer one of the most urgent questions in physics today: How much do elementary particles called neutrinos weigh?

    By Peter Weiss

  4. Aphids with Attitude

    A few aphid species that live socially in groups raise their own armies of teenage female clones.