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  1. Tech

    Tiny Timepiece: Atomic clock could fit almost anywhere

    Physicists have shrunk the high-tech heart of an atomic clock to the size of a rice grain.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Health & Medicine

    Scanning Risk: Whole-body CT exams may increase cancer

    Adults who routinely get whole-body CT scans without medical cause are exposing themselves to doses of radiation that may increase their risk of dying from cancer.

    By Diana Parsell

  3. Cancer Flip-Flop: Gene acts in both proliferation and control of growth

    Scientists have identified what might be a new class of cancer-controlling genes that alternates between halting and promoting cancer.

    By Christen Brownlee

  4. Cultured Readers: Chinese kids show new neural side of dyslexia

    Brain disturbances that underlie the inability to read a non-alphabetic script, such as Chinese, differ from those already implicated in the impaired reading of alphabetic systems, such as English.