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  1. Health & Medicine

    Tenacious STD: Drug-resistant gonorrhea is spreading

    Responding to a surge in tough-to-treat gonorrhea, the CDC has stopped recommending Cipro-class antibiotics for the disease.

    By Brian Vastag
  2. Health & Medicine

    Visual Clarity: People with MS maintain eyesight with drug

    A drug for multiple sclerosis seems to prevent subtle vision loss in many patients.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Tech

    A New Low: Lilliputian pipette releases tiniest drops

    Physicists have constructed a pipette that dispenses a billionth of a trillionth of a liter.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  4. Planetary Science

    Northern Exposure: The inhospitable side of the galaxy?

    Our solar system's periodic motion from one side of the galaxy to the other could expose life on Earth to massive amounts of cosmic rays and cause recurring, catastrophic mass extinctions.