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  1. Health & Medicine

    Drug aids destruction of lymphoma cells

    The drug rituximab, when added to chemotherapy, boosts survival rates in people with diffuse B-cell lymphoma, a kind of cancer.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Tech

    Laser Landmark: Silicon device spans technology gap

    By coaxing a silicon microstructure into acting as a laser, engineers have achieved a long-sought and important step toward microchips capable of simultaneously manipulating electrons and light.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Earth

    Lemon-scented products spawn pollutants

    Some fragrances used in home-care products can play a role in generating potentially harmful air pollution.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Anthropology

    Evolutionary Shrinkage: Stone Age Homo find offers small surprise

    Scientists announced the discovery of the partial skeleton of a small-bodied Homo species that inhabited an eastern Indonesian island from at least 38,000 years ago until about 18,000 years ago.