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  1. Health & Medicine

    Budding Tastes: Higher blood pressure in newborns links to salt preference

    Babies who tolerate a salty flavor have higher blood pressure on average than their less tolerant counterparts do.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Earth

    Nature’s Own: Ocean yields gases that had seemed humanmade

    Chemical analyses of seawater provide the first direct evidence that the ocean may be a significant source of certain atmospheric gases that scientists had previously assumed to be produced primarily by industrial activity.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Astronomy

    X-Ray Chaos: Violence shows itself in a nearby galaxy

    New X-ray observations provide additional evidence that Centaurus A, the nearest radio-wave-emitting galaxy to Earth that has a supermassive black hole, is a maelstrom of violence.