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  1. Health & Medicine

    A better test for prostate cancer

    Elevated urine concentrations of a compound called sarcosine in men with prostate cancer may signal an aggressive malignancy.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Psychology

    Fatal fallout of financial failure

    Using population data, researchers have linked a widespread Asian economic crisis in 1997 to an abrupt increase in suicide rates the following year in hard-hit places.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Climate

    Winter birds shift north

    More than 170 common North American species are wintering farther north than they did in the past.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Life

    Mother right whales know best, maybe

    Southern right whales learn where to eat from mom and may not seek new feeding grounds if these favorite restaurants go belly-up.