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  1. Humans

    Building a better bomb sniffer

    A new handheld device detects TATP, an explosive that is easy to make but hard to detect.

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  2. Life

    Genome may be mostly junk after all

    A cross-species comparison suggests that more than 90 percent of the DNA in the human genome has no known function.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Immune gene variants help stop HIV

    Research on HIV-infected people who rarely develop AIDS might lead to better drugs or a vaccine.

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  4. Space

    EPOXI spacecraft encounters comet

    Passing within 700 kilometers of the peanut-shaped Hartley 2 nets detailed pictures.