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  1. Health & Medicine

    Malaria vaccine yields protection

    In its first large-scale test, the experimental immunization cuts risk of disease in about half of the children getting it and limits severe infections, researchers report.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Teen brains’ growing pains

    Testing captures substantial changes in some youths’ IQs and gray matter.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Life

    Stopping a real-life ‘Contagion’

    An antibody treatment fends off the lethal Hendra virus in monkeys and may also work against the equally dangerous Nipah virus.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Space

    Critics take aim at fast neutrinos

    Lack of energy trail suggests faster-than-light finding was miscalculated.