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  1. Health & Medicine

    Vitamin E benefits cattle, too

    Vitamin E aids immune system function and prevents growth declines in cattle, offering an alternative to potentially dangerous use of low-dose antibiotics.

    By Damaris Christensen
  2. Health & Medicine

    Insight into preemies’ blindness

    Lack of a growth factor called IGF-1 has been implicated as a trigger for a disease that can cause vision problems, including blindness, in premature babies.

    By Damaris Christensen
  3. Health & Medicine

    Alzheimer’s damage might start off early

    Copper and free radicals may initiate the brain damage of Alzheimer's disease long before its hallmark protein plaques have formed.

    By Jessa Netting
  4. Health & Medicine

    Seemingly safer steroid mimics

    A glucocorticoid mimic may offer the autoinflammatory effects of steroids with fewer side effects.

    By Damaris Christensen
  5. Health & Medicine

    Boning up with vitamin E

    Vitamin E may ward off osteoporisis—at least in mice.

    By Damaris Christensen
  6. Health & Medicine

    Saving fertility for cancer survivors?

    A compound called sphingosine-1-phosphate preserves fertility in female mice given radiation treatment.

    By Damaris Christensen

  7. Women show the ways to maturity

    A 39-year study finds three different patterns of healthy psychological development among women, each of which emphasizes particular goals and trade-offs.

    By Bruce Bower
  8. Health & Medicine

    Glucose control spares arteries in diabetes

    Very strict control of blood glucose concentrations helps limit atherosclerosis formation in people with type I, or juvenile-onset, diabetes.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Animals

    Condor chicks hatch in zoo and wild

    Newly hatched California condor chicks indicate that reproduction is again taking place in the wild.

    By Janet Raloff

  10. Math fears subtract from memory, learning

    In a study of college students, high levels of anxiety about taking mathematics tests interfered with memory processes needed to perform difficult arithmetic problems.

    By Bruce Bower
  11. Animals

    Microbe lets mite dads perform virgin birth

    A gender-bent mite—in which altered males give birth as virgins—turns out to be the first species discovered to live and reproduce with only one set of chromosomes.

    By Susan Milius
  12. Earth

    Ozone flares with fireworks festivities

    Holiday fireworks and sparklers trigger ozone-generating chemical reactions in the lower atmosphere.

    By Jessica Gorman