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  1. Health & Medicine

    Using 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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  2. Health & Medicine

    Worm-inspired superglue

    Researchers create a material that may one day be used to paste together bones in the body.

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  3. Animals

    Vocal abilities lost, found and drowned out

    Reports from the meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union

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  4. Earth

    Bubblin’ plume

    Sonar survey spots previously unknown plume in the depths off California.

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  5. Earth

    Rapid 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.