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  1. Astronomy

    Cosmic Primitive: Old star sheds light on early stellar formation

    Astronomers have found one of the most chemically primitive stars known, dating to just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Anthropology

    Stone Age Cutups: Deathly rituals emerge at Neandertal site

    A new analysis of 130,000-year-old fossils found in a Croatian cave a century ago suggests that Neandertals ritually cut up corpses of their comrades and perhaps engaged in cannibalism.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Health & Medicine

    Messy Mix? Combined vaccine yields fewer antibodies

    Some common childhood vaccines don't seem to work as well when administered with, or at the same time as, other vaccines.