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  1. Health & Medicine

    Rotavirus vaccines pass big safety tests

    The largest industry-funded medical trials in history have found that two new vaccines are both safe and effective against life-threatening childhood diarrhea caused by rotavirus.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Health & Medicine

    Tumor’s border cells told to leave

    Cells on a tumor's outer layer that touch healthy tissue receive a chemical signal that sends them wandering away.

    By Christen Brownlee
  3. Earth

    Warming climate will slow ocean circulation

    Later this century, rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere could slow the ocean currents that bring warm waters to the North Atlantic.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Animals

    New candidates for smallest vertebrate

    Two recent scientific papers have described fish species that could, depending on the definition, be the world's smallest known vertebrate.