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  1. Health & Medicine

    Stomaching diabetes

    A new way to treat diabetes could recruit cells in the gut to make insulin when the pancreas can’t.

    By Patrick Barry
  2. Climate

    Now that’s abrupt

    Past abrupt climate change in the North Atlantic could have started as far south as China, scientists say.

    By Ashley Yeager
  3. 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
  4. Health & Medicine

    Coloring the body

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

    By Tia Ghose
  5. 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.