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  1. Earth

    Protective Blanket: Atmosphere blocks many small stony asteroids

    A new computer model that more realistically simulates the aerodynamic forces on an object as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere suggests that the thin layer of air is an even better shield than previously thought.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Health & Medicine

    Split Ends: Cancers follow shrinkage of chromosomes’ tips

    Genetic tabs called telomeres, which normally protect the ends of chromosomes, become undersized in many tissues that later turn cancerous, new studies in people show.

    By Ben Harder

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    I suspect that none of the researchers whose work was described in this article was ever a teenage girl with an absent (or distant) father.