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  1. Health & Medicine

    Nabbing suspicious SNPs

    Scientists search the whole genome for clues to common diseases.

    By Regina Nuzzo
  2. Space

    Sizing up black holes

    ST. LOUIS—Astronomers are all wound up over a new method for sizing up supermassive black holes found at the cores of galaxies. The method allows researchers for the first time to estimate the weight of these black holes in spiral galaxies up to 8 billion light-years away, or halfway across the universe, reports Marc Seigar […]

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Health & Medicine

    Thanks for the future memories

    To the brain, remembering the past and visualizing the future look surprisingly similar.

    By Susan Gaidos
  4. Chemistry

    Small, But Super

    These 'atoms' can't leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they have special powers.