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  1. Babies’ sound path to language skills

    A test of early speech perception shows promise as a way to identify 6-month-olds headed for language difficulties as toddlers.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Health & Medicine

    Mexican Americans face stroke risk

    Middle-aged Mexican Americans face twice the stroke risk that non-Hispanic whites do.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Tech

    Helping circuits get enough oxygen

    The search for new insulators needed for making ever-smaller circuits may get a boost from a new electron microscopy technique sensitive to a single oxygen atom missing from a crystal layer.

    By Peter Weiss
  4. Health & Medicine

    Vitamin E may curb colds in old folks

    Vitamin E seems to help elderly people fend off colds.