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  1. Health & Medicine

    Prep Work: Bird-flu vaccine might work better with primer

    Giving people a vaccine against an existing form of avian influenza might help them respond better when given a shot for a future strain of the virus during a pandemic.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Astronomy

    Assault on Andromeda: Nearby galaxy had recent collision

    New findings suggest that a small galaxy recently plunged into Andromeda, opening a new window on collisions that are rare today but were common in the early universe.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Physics

    Vanishing Actor: Physicists unveil first invisibility cloak

    The first functional invisibility cloak, which operates at microwave frequencies, has emerged from the laboratory.