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  1. Materials Science

    Carbon nanotubes get nosy

    Researchers have demonstrated that individual nanotubes, decorated with DNA, can rapidly detect a number of gases.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Health & Medicine

    High testosterone linked to prostate cancer risk

    Men with naturally high testosterone levels face an elevated risk of prostate cancer, suggesting that men who use hormone supplements to combat age-related problems could also be in trouble.

    By Ben Harder
  3. Humans

    Tulane’s traveling med school

    Houston medical schools opened their facilities to a sister institution in New Orleans whose faculty and students were sent into exile by Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Tech

    Humane bloodletting

    Medical researchers have designed a new lancet that dramatically reduces the pain experienced by lab mice during blood-sampling procedures.