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  1. Health & Medicine

    Aura origins show the way in epilepsy surgery

    Epilepsy patients who experience multiple auras before a seizure, usually considered poor candidates for corrective brain surgery, might benefit from by a new brain scan procedure.

    By Nathan Seppa

  2. Orangutans hand it to researchers

    Orangutans try to communicate by gesturing when they think they're being misunderstood, much as people do when playing charades.

    By Carolyn Barry
  3. Earth

    Lack of oxygen stunts fish reproduction

    Seasonal oxygen shortages in coastal waters, increasing in severity because of pollution, may impair fish reproduction.

    By Sarah Webb

  4. Virus thrives by hiding

    Some viruses create cocoonlike refuges in the cells they invade, shielding them from the cell's defense mechanisms.