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  1. Health & Medicine

    Catching macular degeneration early

    Scientists have developed a test that uses the eye's ability to adapt to darkness as a test for age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in elderly people.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Humans

    From the October 8, 1932, issue

    AUTUMN BRINGS NOBILITY EVEN TO CORNFIELD WEEDS Autumn is the time of the Truce of God. Even as a beggar may assume a certain dignity when he is about to die, so the commonest weeds often take on beauty when all things pause to make last salute to the retreating sun, before the hora novissima […]

    By Science News
  3. Animals

    That special wax lasts after courtship

    Sandpipers' special wax for their wings during the breeding season may have less to do with courting a mate and more to do with sitting on eggs.