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  1. Health & Medicine

    Nerves in heart show damage in Parkinson’s

    Some patients with Parkinson's disease also have destruction of nerve terminals in the heart that affects blood pressure.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Materials Science

    Titanium makes move toward mainstream

    Inventors of a new process for producing titanium claim that their method can reduce the metal's cost to one-third its current price.

    By Jessica Gorman
  3. Health & Medicine

    Cells profilerate in magnetic fields

    Magnetic fields such as those found within a few feet of outdoor electric-power lines could make cells that are vulnerable to cancer behave like tumors.

    By Laura Sivitz
  4. Physics

    Most-Wanted Particle Appears, Perhaps

    Hints of the Higgs boson—the crucial and last undetected fundamental particle predicted by the central theory of particle physics—have cropped up at a particle collider in Switzerland just as the machine is slated to be dismantled to make room for a more powerful collider.