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  1. Perfect pitch common among the blind

    Blind musicians are more likely to have perfect pitch than are sighted people.

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  2. Blame the brain for lack of rhythm

    Some people are born with dysmusia, a condition marked by difficulty learning to play music or recognizing melodies.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Boldly into the breech controversy

    Addressing a long-simmering controversy, a large new study has shown that in pregnancies where the baby has positioned itself to emerge feet or buttocks first, the delivery safest for the mother and child is a planned cesarean section rather than a vaginal birth.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Cancer cells on the move

    A new study suggests how a gene recently linked to liver, skin, and pancreatic cancer also causes an often-deadly form of breast cancer.