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  1. Health & Medicine

    Light pot smoking easy on lungs

    Infrequent marijuana users show a slight improvement in breathing capacity and middling smokers had no change, a 20-year study shows.

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  2. Space

    New maps of the cosmic dark

    Probing galactic distortions reveals web of invisible matter.

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  3. Life

    Crabs hither, shrimp thither

    Biologists document surprising differences among deep-sea animals at hydrothermal vent fields.

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  4. Life

    Green gleam helps fish see violet

    A deep-sea fish's eyes apparently use fluorescence to pick up hard-to-detect hues, researchers conclude.

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  5. Life

    Rhino beetle’s horn may be cheap

    Outrageous-looking head spikes on the male of the species may not cost much in evolutionary terms.