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  1. Health & Medicine

    Prostate enzyme triggers cancer drug

    A new drug reverses advanced prostate cancer in mice by enlisting the aid of prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme found in most prostate tumors.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Astronomy

    Rendezvous gets more personal with Eros

    Venturing closer to a space rock than any satellite has ever gone before, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)-Shoemaker mission last week took the sharpest images ever recorded of an asteroid.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Paleontology

    Early Biped Fossil Pops Up in Europe

    A newly described, nearly complete 290-million-year-old fossil of an ancient reptile pushes back the evidence for terrestrial bipedalism by 60 million years.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Animals

    Shielded cells help fish ignore noise

    Fish can sort out the interesting ripples from the background rush of water currents through sensors shielded in canals that run along their flanks.