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  1. Health & Medicine

    Infectious Notion

    Lessons from gene therapy promote viruses as cancer fighters.

    By Ruth Bennett
  2. Astronomy

    Big, Bigger . . . Biggest?

    Galaxy map reveals the limits of cosmic structure.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Math

    Mathematician on Ice

    Adventurous voyages to Antarctica test mathematical models of sea ice.

    By Ivars Peterson

  4. Inside Violent Worlds

    Political conflict and terror look different up close and local.

    By Bruce Bower

  5. Silence of the Xs

    Does junk DNA help women muffle one X chromosome?

    By John Travis
  6. Agriculture

    Detoxifying Desert’s Manna

    Farmers need no longer fear the sweet pea's dryland cousin.