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  1. Animals

    More junk makes for better dads

    A new analysis links dutiful fatherhood in prairie voles to a stretch of DNA once dismissed as meaningless.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Astronomy

    Rumblings from a dead star

    The burned-out cinder left behind when a massive Milky Way star exploded recently underwent its own outburst.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Tech

    A nanoprinter for cheaper diagnostics

    Using strands of DNA as movable type, scientists have created a miniaturized printing technique for mass-producing medical diagnostic chips.

    By Alexandra Goho
  4. Health & Medicine

    Stem cell shift may lead to infections, leukemia

    Aging of blood-producing stem cells could be responsible for the relatively high incidence of infections and myeloid leukemia in the elderly.