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  1. Health & Medicine

    Experimental herpes drug outperforms first-line med

    An experimental treatment for genital herpes suppresses the viral infection better than the standard drug, but animal tests raise concerns about side effects.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Paleontology

    Lost-and-found dinosaur thrived in water

    Fossils pieced together through ridiculous luck reveal Spinosaurus to be the only known dinosaur adapted for regular ventures into water.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Health & Medicine

    Clinical trial reanalyses may alter who should get treated

    Reanalyses of clinical trial data sometimes lead to different treatment suggestions.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Paleontology

    Fossils push back origins of modern mammals

    Fossils of three newly identified early mammals from China suggest that the common ancestor of today’s mammals lived over 200 million years ago.