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  1. Health & Medicine

    Exercise seems to limit bad falls in elderly

    Regular exercise might limit broken bones due to bad falls in elderly people.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Life

    Morel mushroom may grow crop of its own

    A fungus could be a farmer itself, sowing, cultivating and harvesting bacteria.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Cosmology

    Candidates for dark matter particles bite the dust

    Most sensitive experiment yet determines that earlier findings were just artifacts.

    By Andrew Grant
  4. Health & Medicine

    Mice lose the blues quickly with experimental drug

    Studies in mice point to new, fast-acting antidepressants.

    By Laura Sanders
  5. Genetics

    People’s genes welcome their microbes

    In mice and humans, genetic variants seem to control the bacterial mix on and in bodies.