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  1. Health & Medicine

    Cells in groups may promote cancer’s spread

    Cellular gangs, not individuals, form distant tumors from breast malignancies, a new study finds.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Planetary Science

    Martian crater was once filled with liquid water

    Sandstone deposits on Mars indicate that Gale Crater, the Curiosity rover’s stomping ground, was once a lake fed by rivers.

    By Christopher Crockett
  3. Chemistry

    Early asteroid impacts may have aided life’s origin

    RNA ingredients found in laser-induced simulation of explosions.

    By Beth Mole
  4. Life

    Softer surroundings stifle some chemotherapy drugs

    Some anticancer drugs such as Gleevec are less effective when attacking cancer cells grown in soft surroundings.