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  1. Earth

    Model offers grounds for midwestern quakes

    A new computer model may help explain how earthquakes can happen at fault zones located far from the edges of a tectonic plate.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Health & Medicine

    Gene Tied to Heightened Diabetes Risk

    People with three particular variations within the gene that encodes the protein calpain-10 face triple the risk of getting type II diabetes.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Earth

    River Stats Trickle In: Major floods may be waning in Europe

    A new analysis of historical flood records from central Europe suggests that widespread inundations in the region have been on the wane for the past century or so.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Health & Medicine

    Paper Chased: Cancer-vaccine study is retracted

    Researchers in Germany have retracted a paper that reported promising results for a vaccine that elicited immune responses against cancer cells.