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  1. Health & Medicine

    Gender differences in weight loss

    Men and women gain weight differently and may lose it differently, too.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Antioxidants for greyhounds? Not a good bet

    Antioxidant vitamins that greyhound racers have been giving their animals to boost performance actually slow down the dogs.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Study fails to link vasectomy to cancer

    Researchers have found that men with prostate cancer are no more likely to have had a vasectomy than healthy men are.

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  4. Physics

    Paper planes get laser liftoff

    Powering aircraft by remote lasers works—at least on paper.

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  5. 19086

    This article says that the water drop is added to the back of the paper “as a wall against which the metal plume could push.” It seems more likely that the heat of the laser would even more violently vaporize the water, creating a small explosion that would drive the plane forward via the relatively […]

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  6. Earth

    Study links cancer to Vatican Radio

    Broadcast transmissions from a forest of antennas owned by Vatican Radio, outside Rome, appear to have boosted leukemia incidence in neighboring communities.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Method could boost diabetes therapy

    Allowing insulin-producing islets to grow in close contact with each other during cell culture may increase the chance of successful transplant into diabetic people.

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  8. Tech

    Software bugs cost big bucks

    An epidemic of software errors in industrial computer programs is costing the United States $60 billion per year.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Melanoma gene quickly reeled in

    Biologists have discovered a gene that may contribute to many cases of deadly skin cancer.

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  10. Earth

    Crisis on Tap?

    Because people are becoming ever more dependent on underground aquifers as sources of water, scientists are striving to understand better how groundwater systems interact with the water that flows across Earth's surface.

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  11. 19085

    Regarding this article, I live close to Mendota, Calif., the site of the photo depicting ground subsidence due to overpumping of groundwater. Though I have only lived here for two summers, I am surprised at the amount of water wasted daily by agriculture and residential users in this area. A casual observer would not know […]

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  12. Health & Medicine

    A Rash of Kisses

    A kiss can trigger allergic reactions.

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