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  1. Space

    MESSENGER glimpses Mercury’s Western hemisphere, new features

    The results are in from MESSENGER’s second flyby of Mercury, one of the least-explored planets in the solar system.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Health & Medicine

    A sugar helps E. coli go down

    Some harmful strains of E. coli might rely on something sweet to do harm.

    By Dina Fine Maron
  3. Animals

    Farm chemicals can indirectly hammer frogs

    A widely used agricultural weed killer teams up with fertilizer to render frogs especially vulnerable to debilitating parasites.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Health & Medicine

    Malaria takes on the top meds

    Malaria is thwarting frontline drugs called artemisinins in Cambodia.