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  1. Health & Medicine

    Lining medical stents with hairlike fuzz could fend off infections

    Implanted tubes that transport bodily fluids can get gross. A lab prototype suggests a new vibration-based way to keep them clean and prevent infection.

    By McKenzie Prillaman
  2. Physics

    Physicists explain how cheese rosettes form

    Rosettes made by scraping Tête de Moine, or “monk’s head,” cheese result from variations in the friction between the blade and the cheese.

    By Emily Conover
  3. Space

    A Soviet spacecraft has returned to Earth

    Kosmos 482 launched for Venus in 1972 but never left Earth orbit. The spacecraft finally lost enough energy that it couldn't fight gravity anymore.

    By Lisa Grossman
  4. Animals

    Ancient poems document the decline of the Yangtze finless porpoise

    The porpoise is critically endangered.