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Health & MedicineUsing estrogen to combat persistent breast cancer
Estrogen therapy stymies breast cancer in some patients who have exhausted their other options, a new study finds.
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Health & MedicineWorm-inspired superglue
Researchers create a material that may one day be used to paste together bones in the body.
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AnimalsVocal abilities lost, found and drowned out
Reports from the meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union
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EarthBubblin’ plume
Sonar survey spots previously unknown plume in the depths off California.
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EarthRapid evolution may be reshaping forest birds’ wings
Logging during the last century might have driven birds in mature boreal forests toward pointier wings while reforestation in New England led to rounder wings.