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  1. Health & Medicine

    Understanding Cancer’s Spread

    Where cancer goes, where it grows, and why.

    By Damaris Christensen
  2. Anthropology

    Evolution’s Youth Movement

    The fossils of ancient children may provide insights into the evolution of modern Homo sapiens.

    By Bruce Bower

  3. A Fly Called Iyaiyai

    All that Latin has its light side.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Astronomy

    Captured on Camera: Are They Planets?

    Studying several groups of nearby, newborn stars–many of which weren't known until a few years ago–researchers may soon obtain the first image of a bona fide planet orbiting a star other than our sun.

    By Ron Cowen

  5. A More Perfect Union

    Forsaking life in the outside world, endosymbiotic bacteria of some insects traded freedom and nutrients for life inside a cell.