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  1. Planetary Science

    Martian doings

    The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has finished reshaping its orbit, while the venerable rover Opportunity is approaching the rim of the widest and deepest crater it has yet visited.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Health & Medicine

    Progestin linked to hearing loss in older women

    Elderly women who received progestin as part of hormone replacement therapy have poorer hearing than do women who didn't get progestin.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Anthropology

    Neandertal debate goes south

    A controversial report concludes that Neandertals lived on southwestern Europe's Iberian coast until 24,000 years ago, sharing the area for several thousand years with modern humans before dying out.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Tech

    A thin laser gets thinner

    Researchers have created a microchip laser that fires an extraordinarily thin beam of high-intensity light.