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  1. Health & Medicine

    Caloric threats from sugarfree drinks?

    Regularly downing sweet drinks or sugar substitutes may foster overeating by reprogramming an individual's ability to judge a snack's caloric impact.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Astronomy

    Controlling the speed of solar eruptions

    The billion-ton blobs of magnetized gas that the sun sporadically hurls into space can't reach Earth in less than half a day.

    By Ron Cowen

  3. Dying before Their Time

    Genetically engineered mice that get prematurely old give hints to the causes of aging.

    By John Travis

  4. 19437

    The teardrop shape of Venus away from the centermost part of the sun simply is caused by the photographic surface being planar, rather than spherical.