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  1. Health & Medicine

    Phages break up plaques

    Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, dissolve plaques in the brains of mice with an Alzheimer's-like disease.

    By Brian Vastag
  2. Health & Medicine

    Sticky treatment for staph infections

    Honey from New Zealand gums up bacteria, offering a potential new means of combating difficult-to-treat infections.

    By Brian Vastag
  3. Astronomy

    Crash will determine solar system’s fate

    The solar system already lies in the suburbs of the Milky Way, but the sun and its planets will be yanked even farther away about 5 billion years from now.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Earth

    Guidelines for wind farms

    National policies to maximize the benefits of wind farms while lessening their environmental impacts may be needed.