Vitamin D Helps Turn Health Around
NASA's Kepler Finds 26 New Planets
Nuclear-Waste Site Scrutinized
Life in Ocean 'Blue Holes' Studied
Haiti, DR May Face Big Quake Period
Scientists Engineer Bioterror Fears

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NASA's Kepler has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets -- discoveries that nearly double the number of verified planets and triple the number of stars with orbiting planets.
A federal oversight panel is raising new concerns to the Department of Energy about potentially serious flaws in the design of a first-of-its-kind, $12 billion radioactive waste treatment plant.
Life found in underwater caves in the Bahamas could give clues to what types of marine life might be found on distant planets and moons, experts say, as they are similar to microbes from early Earth.
Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic could be in for a period of periodic powerful earthquakes, a new study says, underscoring the need for a focus on building seismic-proof structures.
A threatening new version of the bird flu virus that didn't emerge from nature but was born out of experiments in a lab has scientists fearing that terrorists can reproduce the strain on their own.

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