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  1. Science & Society

    Intel Science Talent Search spotlights America’s whiz kids

    Top winner of the enduring high school science competition takes 2010 prize for work on a space navigation system.

    By Lisa Grossman
  2. Math

    Big or small, financial bubbles burst alike

    New data from the Frankfurt stock exchange show that fleeting financial bubbles behave according to the same mathematical rules as history-making ones.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    Experimental blood pressure drug takes natural approach

    Dual-action compound tests well in large group of people with mild to moderate hypertension

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Chemistry

    Methane-making microbes thrive under the ice

    Antarctica’s ice sheets could hide vast quantities of the greenhouse gas, churned out by a buried ecosystem.