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Looking for osteoporosis in spit
A dentist has found three compounds in saliva that could be used to gauge bone loss.
By Janet Raloff -
AstronomySearching for a lost craft
A recent Department of Defense analysis of images of the Red Planet may have located a lost spacecraft on Mars, but NASA says the images could just be electronic noise.
By Ron Cowen -
AstronomyProbes find a new plume on Io
Two spacecraft jointly eyeing Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, have spotted a towering new plume.
By Ron Cowen -
EarthLasers show atmosphere differs from models
New observations of the middle and upper atmosphere over Earth's polar regions may require scientists to revamp their mathematical models of temperature and other environmental conditions at high altitudes.