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  1. Health & Medicine

    Neandertals, gut microbes and mail-order ancestry tests

    Geneticists weigh in during the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Space

    Misplaced muons either mundane or monumental

    During an experiment in Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator, a group of elementary particles called muons showed up in a strange place. Physicists are considering the likely implications.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Health & Medicine

    Diversity of human skin bacteria revealed

    First large-scale inventory of microbes charts types, locales of bacteria.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Life

    Supreme Court lifts restriction on Navy sonar testing

    Justices overturn restrictions that require Navy to stop using sonar when marine mammals are within 2,200 yards of vessels.