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  1. Health & Medicine

    U.S. measles cases hit a record high since the disease was eliminated in 2000

    Each year from 2010 to 2017, 21 million children did not get vaccinated against measles, according to UNICEF.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Genetics

    A marine parasite’s mitochondria lack DNA but still churn out energy

    Missing mitochondrial DNA inside a parasitic marine microbe turned up inside the organism’s nucleus.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Archaeology

    Excavations show hunter-gatherers lived in the Amazon more than 10,000 years ago

    Early foragers may have laid the foundation for farming’s ascent in South America’s tropical forests.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Particle Physics

    This is the slowest radioactive decay ever spotted

    Scientists have made the first direct observations of an exotic type of radioactive decay called two-neutrino double electron capture.