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  1. Health & Medicine

    In a first, Huntington’s disease is slowed by an experimental treatment

    An experimental gene therapy slowed Huntington’s by up to 75 percent in a small clinical trial. While not a cure, it may give patients longer lives.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  2. Astronomy

    See a 3-D map of stellar nurseries based on data from the Gaia telescope

    The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.

    By McKenzie Prillaman
  3. Animals

    Meet the ‘grue jay,’ a rare hybrid songbird

    Despite millions of years of evolutionary separation and a geographical divide, a blue jay and green jay mated in Texas.