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  1. Health & Medicine

    Shot in the gut

    A mystifying case of lead poisoning, which may have lasted more than a decade, turned out to have been caused by a swallowed shotgun pellet.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Tech

    Carbon nanotubes drive X-ray scanner

    X-ray scanners based on carbon nanotubes could make airport luggage screening and high-tech medical imaging more efficient.

    By Alexandra Goho
  3. Health & Medicine

    Enzyme stopper combats cancers

    An experimental drug combination that inhibits an enzyme that's abundant in tumor cells shows promise against several cancers.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Planetary Science

    Ringing in a new moon

    The Cassini spacecraft has spotted a new moon of Saturn, only the second known to lie within the planet's main rings.