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  1. Health & Medicine

    Sleight of Herb: Black cohosh mislabeled in medicinal products

    A sizable fraction of the herbal supplements marketed as preparations of black cohosh contains none of that North American plant.

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  2. Earth

    Blast Survivors: Fragments of asteroid found in ancient crater

    Pieces of an asteroid that blasted a 70-kilometer-wide crater in southern Africa millions of years ago may have been found intact inside the thick layer of once-molten rock that the impact left behind.

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  3. Sharing the Health: Cells from unusual mice make others cancerfree

    Immune-cell transplants from an extraordinary strain of mice that resists cancer can pass this trait to mice that aren't as lucky.