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  1. Health & Medicine

    Cancer drugs may help the liver recover from common painkiller overdoses

    Experimental anticancer drugs may help the liver recover after acetaminophen poisoning.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Tech

    Children may be especially vulnerable to peer pressure from robots

    Elementary school children often endorsed unanimous but inaccurate judgments made by small groups of robots.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Oceans

    Viruses may help phytoplankton make clouds — by tearing the algae apart

    Sick phytoplankton shed their calcium carbonate plates more easily than their healthy counterparts, which could play a role in forming clouds.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  4. Climate

    As waters rise, coastal megacities like Mumbai face catastrophe

    For coastal megacities like Mumbai, rising seas and weather chaos linked with climate change threaten economic and social disaster.