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  1. Space

    Milky Way’s black hole seen in new detail

    New radio wave observations are giving astronomers their closest look yet at the supermassive black hole believed to be lurking at the center of our galaxy.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Earth

    Mighty hurricanes get mightier

    Peak winds in North Atlantic hurricanes and similar storms elsewhere in the world have gained speed during the past three decades, thanks to a warming trend in many of the ocean basins where such storms are spawned.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Health & Medicine

    Calcium clue

    Excess calcium in the blood might signal an increased risk of fatal prostate cancer, a new study finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Physics

    Electrons as math whizzes

    A new paper suggests the possibility that the behavior of electrons in quantum systems could verify Riemann’s famous conjecture about prime numbers.