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  1. Health & Medicine

    One problem, many paths

    Autism’s many genetic players may act through common networks.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Humans

    Crime’s digital past

    Computer science makes history, gleaning new findings from centuries' worth of transcripts from a Victorian-era courthouse.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Space

    Lighting the universe

    Scientists rethink what the first stars were like and how they formed.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Health & Medicine

    Residents of the brain

    It's a zoo in there: Scientists turn up startling diversity among neurons.

    By Laura Sanders
  5. Health & Medicine

    The Power of D

    Sunshine vitamin’s potential health benefits stir up, split scientists.