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  1. Health & Medicine

    Double Credit: Iron-fortified salt cuts anemia

    A form of table salt manufactured to contain iron can fight off anemia among children living in rural North Africa and could expand the role of salt fortification around the world.

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  2. Animals

    Dangerous Times: Guppies don’t follow rules for old age

    A study of wild guppies suggests that life in a dangerous place does not automatically push evolution toward rapid aging as previously thought.

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  3. Crippled fungus acts as vaccine

    A genetically crippled strain of yeast can vaccinate mice against deadly normal strains.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Drug aids destruction of lymphoma cells

    The drug rituximab, when added to chemotherapy, boosts survival rates in people with diffuse B-cell lymphoma, a kind of cancer.

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  5. Tech

    Laser Landmark: Silicon device spans technology gap

    By coaxing a silicon microstructure into acting as a laser, engineers have achieved a long-sought and important step toward microchips capable of simultaneously manipulating electrons and light.

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  6. Earth

    Lemon-scented products spawn pollutants

    Some fragrances used in home-care products can play a role in generating potentially harmful air pollution.

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  7. Anthropology

    Evolutionary Shrinkage: Stone Age Homo find offers small surprise

    Scientists announced the discovery of the partial skeleton of a small-bodied Homo species that inhabited an eastern Indonesian island from at least 38,000 years ago until about 18,000 years ago.

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  8. Animals

    Familiar face calms stressed-out sheep

    The sight of the face of a familiar sheep seems to reduce stress in troubled sheep.

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  9. Tech

    Wee wires that can crawl

    Self-propelled strands of a muscle protein coated with gold offer a way to arrange and control the nanoworld.

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  10. Animals

    When bluebirds fight, bet on the bluest

    The male bluebirds with the bluest (and most ultraviolet) plumage turned out to be the toughest competitors in a study of who won the rights to prime nest boxes.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    COX-2 inhibitor pulled off market

    Merck's recall of rofecoxib, a COX-2 inhibitor drug for arthritis, raises the question of whether similar drugs might also increase the risk of heart attack.

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  12. Tech

    Tracing the origin of Genesis’ crash

    The upside-down installation of four switches intended to signal the Genesis spacecraft to open its parachutes is the likely cause of the craft's crash in the Utah desert on Sept. 8.

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