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  1. Humans

    Newborn babies may cry in their mother tongues

    Days after birth, French and German infants wail to the melodic structure of their languages.

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  2. Space

    Giant galaxy graveyard grows

    The largest known galactic congregation is bigger than astronomers thought—and its inhabitants are all dead or dying.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Vaccine may head off genital cancer in women

    An experimental immunization can clear up premalignant growths caused by the human papillomavirus in some patients.

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  4. Earth

    Small earthquakes may not predict larger ones

    Quakes far from tectonic plate boundaries may simply be aftershocks of ancient temblors.