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  1. Animals

    Colorful pinwheel puts a new spin on mouse pregnancy

    Among the winners of the 2017 Wellcome Image Awards is a rainbow of mouse placentas that shows how a mother’s immune system affects placental development.

    By Elizabeth Eaton
  2. Health & Medicine

    Cancer cells cast a sweet spell on the immune system

    Tumors have surface sugars that persuade the body’s defenses to look the other way. New therapies are being devised to break the trance.

    By Esther Landhuis
  3. Astronomy

    Close pass by sun didn’t radically alter comet 67P’s landscape

    Landslides on comet 67P shot plumes of dust into space, but changes like these might not radically alter the landscape of the comet.