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  1. Planetary Science

    So close, yet so far away

    Astronomers have found, in the frozen reaches beyond Neptune, two gravitationally bound objects that compose the most widely spaced binary system known in the solar system.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Climate

    Cooling climate ‘consensus’ of 1970s never was

    Myth often cited by global warming skeptics debunked.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Health & Medicine

    Vitamin D deficiency

    Parkinson’s disease patients are more commonly lacking in vitamin D than Alzheimer’s patients or healthy people.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Space

    A comet doubleheader

    Astronomers have discovered the first comet that appears to be a contact binary — two chunks somehow held together by a narrow neck of material.