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  1. Materials Science

    Nanotech Goes to New Lengths: Scientists create ultralong carbon nanotubes

    In an advance toward making superstrong fibers, chemists have synthesized a 4-centimeter-long carbon nanotube, the longest nanotube reported to date.

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  2. Mothering Malnutrition: Moms’ depression weighs on infants in Pakistan

    Maternal depression critically contributes to malnutrition-related health problems among infants in rural Pakistan.

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  3. Astronomy

    Sky Lights: Picture might show an extrasolar planet

    A faint point of red light may be the first picture ever taken of a planet outside the solar system.

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  4. Staph bacteria are choosy about their iron source

    Staphylococcus bacteria prefer to get their iron from heme, the ring-shaped portion of oxygen-carrying proteins such as hemoglobin.