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  1. Astronomy

    Elliptical duet rides the Kuiper belt

    Follow-up observations of an icy object in the Kuiper belt and its moon reveal that the two bodies revolve about each other in the most elongated orbit of any pair of objects in the solar system.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Health & Medicine

    Virus gives cancer the cold treatment

    A genetically engineered version of a common cold virus appears to kill cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.

    By Damaris Christensen
  3. Physics

    Not-So-Neutral Neutron: Clearer view of neutron reveals charged locales

    A sharp, new picture of the neutron reveals that rather than being uniformly electrically neutral, the particle contains regions of positive and negative charge.