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Health & MedicineEarly C-sections pose risks
Babies delivered by elective cesarean section just a week or two before 39 weeks of gestation face increased risk of respiratory and other complications.
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SpaceIn the young universe, black holes may have formed first
Findings pose a possible answer to long-standing question of when the black holes at galactic centers formed.
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EarthEarly asteroids unexpectedly crusty
Two meteorites retrieved from West Antarctica, fragments of an ancient asteroid, contain a type of rock commonly found in Earth’s crust but previously unseen in meteorites.
By Sid Perkins -
SpaceAstronomers get burst of details from early universe
Unusually bright afterglow records what a galaxy was like soon after Big Bang.