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  1. Health & Medicine

    Side Effect Revealed: Heart risk found in leukemia drug

    The remarkably successful cancer drug imatinib might cause heart failure in some patients.

    By Eric Jaffe
  2. Materials Science

    Solid Information: Chemical composition can determine concrete’s durability

    A new analysis reveals how damage progresses in concrete that's exposed to sulfate.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  3. Computing

    Hairy Calculations: Picturing tresses in a truer light

    Hard-to-simulate blond hair may look more natural in future animations thanks to a new computer model that allows for hairs' transparency and includes the illumination produced by light propagating from hair to hair.

    By Peter Weiss
  4. Animals

    Babbling Bats: Do pups talk baby talk as human infants do?

    Young sac-winged bats make long strings of adultlike noises and could be the first animals besides some primates and birds that babble when they're babies.