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  1. Health & Medicine

    Take a chill pill, T cell

    Targeting a receptor on immune cells may hold promise for treating multiple sclerosis and asthma.

    By Tia Ghose
  2. Health & Medicine

    Coloring the body

    Color MRI scans may one day be possible, thanks to microscopic, tunable magnets.

    By Tia Ghose
  3. Agriculture

    A vanilla Vanilla

    The orchid that gives us vanilla beans has startlingly low genetic diversity, suggesting crops might be susceptible to pathogens, researchers report.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  4. Space

    Twinkle, twinkle little planet

    Scientists could use scattered light to identify habitable extrasolar planets.

    By Ron Cowen
  5. Anthropology

    Numbers beyond words

    New research with Amazonian villagers suggests that their language lacks number words but that they still comprehend precise quantities of objects.