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  1. Health & Medicine

    Up and down make different workouts

    An unusual study conducted on an Alpine mountainside suggests that climbing a steep slope improves the body's ability to process certain fats, while descending such a slope enhances metabolism of a key sugar.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Astronomy

    Explosive Tales

    Four hundred years after the explosion of the Kepler supernova, the last such stellar eruption in our galaxy, astronomers have examined the supernova's remnant with state-of-the-art telescopes that view it in infrared, optical, and X-ray light.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Anthropology

    Remnants of the Past

    Sophisticated analyses suggest that some prehistoric peoples were highly skilled weavers.

    By Diana Parsell
  4. Humans

    From the December 1, 1934, issue

    Large propellers for an ocean liner, a new kind of nitrogen, and high blood pressure and thickening of arteries.