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  1. Health & Medicine

    Cancer Link Cooks Up Doubt: Heating may form potential carcinogen in food

    Foods cooked at high temperatures contain large concentrations of acrylamide, a compound suspected to cause cancer in people, but researchers are cautious about acting on preliminary, unpublished data.

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  2. Astronomy

    Faded Stars Get New Role: Hubble takes a long look

    By setting their sights on the galaxy's faintest stars, scientists have calculated the universe's age to be between 13 billion and 14 billion years old.

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  3. All Cried Out: Major depression puts lid on tears

    A new study suggests that depressed individuals cry no more often in response to a sad situation than nondepressed people do.