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Health & Medicine

Heart drug may fight prostate cancer

Digitalis inhibits the common malignancy in lab tests, and long-term users are less likely to develop the disease, a study shows.

Life

Worries grow over monarch butterflies

Migrants overwintering in Mexico rebounded somewhat this past winter, but still trending downward.

Physics

Remodeling the standard model

Physicists could be on the verge of discovering a new elementary particle, studies at a U.S. accelerator suggest.

Paleontology

Supersized superbunny

Fossils reveal a non-hopping giant rabbit that lived on the island of Minorca 5 million years ago.