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Pneumonia vaccine ‘to save thousands of lives’
A new vaccine against pneumonia is being rolled out in Africa which estimates suggest could save more than half a…
Voice restored after larynx transplant
A woman in the US is able to speak for the first time in 11 years after a pioneering voicebox…
Smallest Farmers Found
In the developed world, the small farmer may be going extinct. But among some amoebas, small farming—really small farming—is still…
Dark-Matter Galaxy Detected
The invisibility of “Galaxy X”—as the purported body has been dubbed—may be due less to its apparent status as a…
Stem cells hold key to cure for baldness
Patches of hair may be gone in many men, but the stem cells that make hair are still there. This…
Blood Test To Spot Cancer Gets Big Boost
A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is…
New Clue May Solve Solar Mystery
A new look at the sun using views from two different spacecraft has put a big dent in the nagging…
Father’s iPad app lets son ‘speak’
Victor Pauca will have plenty of presents to unwrap for Christmas, but the five-year-old US boy has already received the…
A Full Year in a Single Frame
Can a single picture sum up all of 2010? In a way, yes. The above multiple-exposure photo shows the figure-eight…