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  1. Humans

    The first sound bites

    During the 1908 presidential race, Taft and Bryan sounded off in a new way as use of the phonograph got serious.

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  2. Gene therapy tool would target free radicals

    New method would make the most of the balance between the good and bad of free radicals, offering a potential treatment for cardiovascular diseases.

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  3. Earth

    Tough meteorite made a big impact

    The stony meteorite that landed in a remote portion of Peru in September 2007 was traveling abnormally fast when it struck and blasted a crater that was unusually large for the its size, new analyses indicate.

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  4. Life

    X chromosome is extra diverse

    Men who father children with multiple women are responsible for “extra” diversity on the X chromosome, a new study of six different populations suggests.