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  1. Tech

    Retro RAM

    A prototype memory chip stores data bits using carbon nanotubes as mechanical switches.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  2. Health & Medicine

    Night lights may foster cancer

    Regularly working through the night appears to come at a steep cost—a heightened risk of cancer.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Humans

    Transport emissions sizable, and rising

    Almost one-sixth of the carbon dioxide produced by human activity since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution resulted from the transport of goods and people—an emissions fraction that's increasing by the year.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Humans

    Judging Science

    Scientists and legal scholars argue that studies conducted with litigation in mind are not necessarily more biased than research done for other purposes.