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  1. Health & Medicine

    Fetal stress begets adult hypertension

    Intense stress during pregnancy may program the baby's development in ways that foster high blood pressure during adulthood.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Health & Medicine

    With this bait, TB won’t play possum

    An oral tuberculosis vaccine, designed to help curtail the spread of the disease in wildlife populations, may also find use in people.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Astronomy

    Physics-astronomy merger wins big

    A new report recommends fostering the extraordinary collaboration taking place between particle physics and astronomy.

    By Peter Weiss
  4. Physics

    Detector spots solar chameleons

    A new measurement of the sun's emission of ghostly neutrinos indicates that the prevailing theory of particle physics needs repair.