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Hostile Intent: Abused kids face up to angry expressions
Physical abuse at home apparently tunes a school-age child's perceptual system to pick up signs of anger in others' facial expressions.
By Bruce Bower -
AstronomyPlanetary System in the Making? Stellar eclipse hints at planet-forming debris
Astronomers reported the first evidence that a young star is periodically eclipsed by a stream of debris, possibly an orbiting belt of asteroids held in place by a massive, unseen planet.
By Ron Cowen -
ChemistryMolecule Sorting: Antibody membrane lends a hand
A new membrane may make it easier to separate mixtures of drug molecules that exist in mirror-image versions into their two components.