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  1. Health & Medicine

    Heartening Responses: Depression drugs may aid survival after heart attack

    Depressed patients recovering from heart attacks receive big heart-health benefits by taking prescribed doses of the antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Plants

    Honey, We Shrank the Snow Lotus: Picking big plants reduces species’ height

    Years of harvesting the larger plants of a Himalayan wildflower used in traditional medicines may be driving the evolution of a stubbier plant form.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Astronomy

    Core Finding: Latest, oddest planet hints at how orbs form

    A newly discovered planet beyond the solar system has the most massive core of any planet known.