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  1. Animals

    Monkey Business: Specimen of new species shakes up family tree

    The new monkey species found in Tanzania last year may be unusual enough to need a new genus, the first one created for monkeys in nearly 80 years.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Planetary Science

    Hubble eyes Jupiter’s second red spot

    Hubble Space Telescope images are providing astronomers with the sharpest views yet of a new red spot on Jupiter.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Health & Medicine

    Sleight of Herb: Black cohosh mislabeled in medicinal products

    A sizable fraction of the herbal supplements marketed as preparations of black cohosh contains none of that North American plant.

    By Ben Harder
  4. Earth

    Blast Survivors: Fragments of asteroid found in ancient crater

    Pieces of an asteroid that blasted a 70-kilometer-wide crater in southern Africa millions of years ago may have been found intact inside the thick layer of once-molten rock that the impact left behind.