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  1. Health & Medicine

    Study fails to link vasectomy to cancer

    Researchers have found that men with prostate cancer are no more likely to have had a vasectomy than healthy men are.

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  2. Physics

    Paper planes get laser liftoff

    Powering aircraft by remote lasers works—at least on paper.

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  3. Earth

    Study links cancer to Vatican Radio

    Broadcast transmissions from a forest of antennas owned by Vatican Radio, outside Rome, appear to have boosted leukemia incidence in neighboring communities.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Method could boost diabetes therapy

    Allowing insulin-producing islets to grow in close contact with each other during cell culture may increase the chance of successful transplant into diabetic people.