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  1. Health & Medicine

    Smart Drugs: Leukemia treatments nearing prime time

    Three new drugs stop acute myeloid leukemia in mice, suggesting the treatments will work in people with this deadly blood cancer.

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  2. Physics

    Voyager spacecraft still buffeted by sun

    Even though the two Voyager probes launched in 1977 passed the outermost planets in our solar system more than a decade ago, their sensors show that they can't yet outrun the influence of solar flares.

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  3. Earth

    Famed undersea vent may be lost

    When scientists last month tried to revisit an undersea hydrothermal vent first discovered nearly a quarter of a century ago, they found the site desolate, possibly paved by a fresh volcanic eruption.