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  1. Astronomy

    Crashing Genesis

    Scientists are trying to salvage the fragile samples of the solar wind collected by the Genesis spacecraft, which crashed to Earth on Sept. 8 after its parachutes failed to open.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Anthropology

    Human ancestor gets leg up on walking

    A new analysis of a 6-million-year-old leg fossil from a member of the human evolutionary family indicates that this individual walked upright with nearly the same deftness as people today do.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Health & Medicine

    Liver transplants succeed in many hepatitis C patients

    People who receive liver transplants for hepatitis C infections fare about as well as people getting such transplants for other diseases.