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  1. Health & Medicine

    Black children commit suicide at twice the rate of white kids

    The suicide rates for young black kids are higher than those of their white counterparts, a pattern that flips in older kids, researchers find.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Animals

    A caterpillar outwits corn defenses by gorging on fattening ‘junk’ food

    The crop plants defend themselves with zombie-maker wasps, but one pest has a desperate work-around.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Psychology

    Gun owner or not, Americans agree on many ways to limit gun violence

    A new survey suggests that gun owners support many potential gun-control policies — now research on their efficacy needs to catch up.

    By Erika Engelhaupt
  4. Planetary Science

    Satellite smashups could have given birth to Saturn’s odd moons

    Nearly head-on collisions between icy moonlets might be responsible for the peculiar shapes of some of Saturn’s moons, computer simulations suggest.