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  1. Health & Medicine

    Obesity and insulin resistance age cells

    Conditions known to hasten diabetes in people may also speed aging.

    By Christen Brownlee
  2. Plants

    World’s fastest plant explodes with pollen

    A high-speed camera has revealed the explosive pollen launches of bunchberry dogwood flowers as the fastest plant motion known.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Planetary Science

    Renegade moon

    Saturn's outlier moon Phoebe didn't coalesce from material near the ringed planet but was captured from the distant Kuiper belt.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Health & Medicine

    Vaccine Gains: Shot protects seniors from shingles flare-ups

    An experimental vaccine prevents half of all cases of shingles, a painful skin disease that typically afflicts the elderly.