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  1. Health & Medicine

    Gene links eyelids and early menopause

    A gene that orchestrates ovary and eyelid development may be the key to early-onset menopause.

    By Jessa Netting
  2. Humans

    I do solemnly swear. . .

    An international science organization is surveying codes of ethics from around the world as a first step towards considering whether scientists globally need an analog of the Hippocratic Oath.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Humans

    High court gives EPA a partial victory

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency can implement tougher controls on tiny airborne particulates that can get deep inside people's lungs.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Paleontology

    Jumbled bones show birds on the menu

    A fossilized pellet of partially digested bones of juvenile and baby birds provides the first evidence that birds served as food for predators.