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  1. Health & Medicine

    Damage Patrol: Enzyme may reveal cancer susceptibility

    People with lung cancer show less DNA-repair activity by a certain enzyme than people without the disease do.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Physics

    Fusion Boost: Promising path to heavy nuclei

    By using radioactive nuclei as projectiles in accelerator-based nuclear collisions, scientists may be able to produce more readily than expected many exotic heavy nuclei that are impossible to make today but are crucial for future advances in nuclear physics.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Astronomy

    A Low Note in Cosmos: Sounding out a new role for black holes

    Astronomers have for the first time detected sound waves generated by a black hole.