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  1. Physics

    A very special snowball

    The long-predicted ice XV has been spotted in the lab.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Swine flu vaccination should target children first

    A new analysis finds that, as long as it peaks this winter, the H1N1 flu outbreak could be curtailed with a vaccination program that targets children first.

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  3. Anthropology

    Stone Age twining unraveled

    Plant fibers excavated at a cave in western Asia suggest that people there made twine more than 30,000 years ago.

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  4. Space

    Metamaterials mock the heavens

    Proposed materials offer a way for physicists to study black holes and chaotic planetary orbits in the laboratory.