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  1. Astronomy

    Observatory on a suicide mission

    Fearing that its 9-year-old workhorse, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, could plunge uncontrollably through the atmosphere if one more of its gyroscopes fails, NASA has decided to crash the spacecraft into the Pacific Ocean in early June.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Health & Medicine

    Chemotherapy baldness thwarted in rats

    Scientists studying rats have now developed a medication that wards off chemotherapy-induced baldness.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Protein predicts prostate cancer spread

    Prostate cancer patients who harbor high concentrations of a protein called thymosine beta-15 in their tumors face an increased risk that the cancer will spread.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Getting melanoma chemotherapy to work

    A drug that turns off a gene that blocks the action of chemotherapy in melanoma shows promise against this lethal skin cancer.