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  1. Health & Medicine

    Virus Shield: Ebola vaccine works fast in monkey test

    Tests on monkeys show that an experimental vaccine can build immunity against Ebola virus within a month, suggesting the vaccine might help contain outbreaks of the deadly pathogen.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Computing

    Resistance leaps as magnetism mounts

    A tiny traffic island for electrons promises to serve as an extraordinarily sensitive detector of magnetic fields.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Tech

    Robots making robots, with some help

    A new type of robotic system that designs and produces robotic offspring may represent a first step toward self-replicating "artificial life."

    By Peter Weiss
  4. Computing

    Going to digital extremes

    A researcher designs the ultimate laptop, stretching the laws of physics to their limits to achieve blazing computation rates.