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  1. Babies babble in just the right way

    Infants babble out of the right side of their mouths, suggesting that the infantile sounds are more than noise.

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  2. Physics

    Mishap halts work at Japanese neutrino lab

    A costly accident has indefinitely disabled Super-Kamiokande, a cutting-edge neutrino detector in Japan.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Enzyme fighter works as well as tamoxifen

    The drug anastrozole generally works as well in fighting advanced breast cancer as better-known tamoxifen, and even surpasses it in certain patients.

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  4. Astronomy

    Is this young star ready to form planets?

    New observations suggest that a mere stripling of a star, which might be as young as 300,000 years old, has already formed planetesimals, the building blocks of planets.