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- Tech
Bandage-like patch dissolves to deliver medicine to skin
Flexible material gets drugs or vaccines into body painlessly.
- Animals
Spider’s personality matters when job hunting
Boldest individuals of social species tasked with seeking out prey.
- Life
Evolution of mammalian monogamy remains mysterious
Two large studies reach opposing conclusions about why males stay with females.
- Physics
Doppler effect takes a spin
Light’s twistiness allows researchers to measure rotating object’s speed.
- Humans
Y chromosome analysis moves Adam closer to Eve
A pair of genetic studies has pushed back age of men's most recent common ancestor.
- Neuroscience
Camping resets internal clock
After a week in the wild, people went to bed and got up earlier.
- Health & Medicine
Going out to lunch zaps mental focus
Sharing a midday meal with friends could lead later to errors at work.
- Earth
Magma can speed to the surface, powering volcanoes
Fast ascent of molten rock could help scientists predict eruptions.
- Planetary Science
Saturn’s tides drive icy moon’s plumes
Enceladus' chilly jets ebb and flow in time with its planet's tug.
- Life
Tigers meet, mix in forest corridors
In India, narrow strips of wild land connect small groups of cats.
- Animals
Oxygen boost aided carnivore evolution in Cambrian explosion
Atmospheric change and rise of predators caused burst in complexity of life.
- Anthropology
Mummified Incan teen drank, did drugs
Girl, who was sacrificed, may have been sedated by alcohol, coca leaves.
