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Health & Medicine

Egg in tiny doses curbs allergy

Giving allergic kids minuscule bits of problem food and gradually increasing it over many months wipes out reactions in some, a study finds.

Earth

Field test stashes climate-warming carbon in deep ocean

Strategically dumping the metal stimulates a bloom of microscopic creatures that carry the greenhouse gas to Davy Jones’s locker.

Humans

Mideast violence goes way back

One-quarter of skulls excavated in troubled region display injuries from clubs or other weapons.

Life

Study shows where identical twins part ways

By birth, genetic doubles are already using their DNA differently.