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  1. Health & Medicine

    Phage Attack: Antibacterial virus might suppress cholera

    Bacteria-attacking viruses that infect bacteria hold cholera bacteria in check throughout most of the year except during the rainy season when these viruses become diluted.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Animals

    Crow Tools: Hatched to putter

    The New Caledonian crow is the first vertebrate to be shown definitively to have an innate tendency to make and use tools, according to researchers who doubled as bird nannies.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Earth

    Living in a Fog: Secondhand smoke may dull kids’ wits

    Millions of U.S. children may have reading deficits because of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke.

    By Ben Harder
  4. Health & Medicine

    Not to Your Health: New mechanism proposed for alcohol-related tumors

    New findings suggest that alcohol encourages blood vessels to invade tumors, supplying nutrients that promote tumor growth.