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- Psychology
Poker pros’ arms betray their hands
Top players' arm motions when betting provide clues to whether or not they hold strong cards.
- Tech
Bacterial batteries get a solid boost
Using microbes to harvest energy from wastewater now has a silver lining, with the metal making reliable, rechargeable batteries.
- Humans
Chemical behind corked wine quashes other aromas
Old sock smell signals contamination but doesn't belong to TCA, study proposes.
- Earth
Hot spot deep beneath North America could have triggered quakes
Mantle plume might have left trail of hot rock under continental US.
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- Planetary Science
Cometlike crashes produce building blocks of life
Amino acids in collision residue support importance of extraterrestrial impacts.
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- Genetics
Genes for body symmetry may also control handedness
Lefties and righties can thank same genes that put hearts on left side for hand dominance, study of thousands of people’s DNA suggests.
- Psychology
Bad acts spark a ‘cheater’s high’
Committing low-stakes acts of dishonesty enhances perpetrators’ moods.
- Earth
Buried Saharan rivers might have been early expressways
Humans might have migrated across the arid region along three once-lush waterways.
- Physics
Notorious ‘Big G’ gets a little larger
Gravitational constant is difficult to measure, but physicists calculate with new number.
- Animals
Young insect legs have real meshing gears
Tiny teeth on hiplike structures keep legs in sync, allowing juvenile planthoppers to jump.
