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  1. Health & Medicine

    Newborns pick up the beat

    Electrical measurements of sleeping newborn babies’ brains indicate that the 2- to 3-day-olds automatically detect a regular beat in rhythmic sequences, possibly reflecting an early capacity for learning music.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Health & Medicine

    Possible anticancer power in fasting every other day

    When mice ate as important as what they ate in reducing cell division linked to cancer, new study reports.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Earth

    Oldest zircon fine-tunes history of moon’s formation

    Mineral bit provides clues about when our cosmic companion formed its crust.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Life

    Carlsbad’s 8 million ‘lost’ bats likely never existed

    Thermal imaging and algorithms challenge famous estimate of extreme bat number.