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  1. Health & Medicine

    Treating cystic fibrosis patients before birth could safeguard organs

    Starting a cystic fibrosis drug sooner than usual may protect an afflicted child’s lungs, pancreases and reproductive tissue, a study in ferrets hints.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Planetary Science

    Kuiper Belt dust may be in our atmosphere (and NASA labs) right now

    Bits of space debris that collect in Earth’s atmosphere may come from as far as the cold, distant Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune.

    By Lisa Grossman
  3. Science & Society

    The science of CBD lags behind its marketing

    Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the lack of scientific research on CBD.

    By Nancy Shute
  4. Tech

    Readers respond to classroom robots, soil erosion and more

    Readers had comments and questions about robots in classrooms, benzodiazepines and more.