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  1. Health & Medicine

    Cardiac Culprit: Autopsies implicate C-reactive protein in fatal heart attacks

    Of people who died suddenly, those who succumbed to a heart attack had an abundance of the inflammation indicator C-reactive protein in the blood, even though few had had outward signs of heart problems.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Astronomy

    Cosmic Remodeling: Superwinds star in early universe

    New measurements reveal that some of the earliest galaxies in the universe produced winds so powerful and persistent that they blew material from one galaxy to another, temporarily separating dark matter from visible matter and profoundly influencing the evolution of future generations of galaxies.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Paleontology

    Older Ancestors: Primate origins age in new analysis

    A controversial new statistical model concludes that the common ancestor of primates lived 81.5