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Animals

Camera trap catches a badger burying a cow

Badgers are known to bury small animals to save them for future eating. Now researchers have caught them caching something much bigger: young cows.

Animals

For glass frogs, moms matter after all

Brief but important maternal care may have evolved before the elaborate egg-tending of glass frog dads.

Tech

SpaceX launches and lands its first reused rocket

Aerospace company SpaceX has successfully reused a Falcon 9 rocket’s booster section for the first time.

Health & Medicine

Getting dengue first may make Zika infection much worse

Experiments in cells and mice suggest that a previous exposure to dengue or West Nile can make a Zika virus infection worse.

Planetary Science

Extreme gas loss dried out Mars, MAVEN data suggest

Over the planet’s history, the Martian atmosphere has lost 66 percent of its argon and a majority of its carbon dioxide, according to data from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft.

Paleontology

New tyrannosaur had a sensitive side

Tyrannosaurs may have had sensitive snouts that detected temperature and touch.

Health & Medicine

For kids, daily juice probably won’t pack on the pounds

An analysis of existing studies suggests that regular juice drinking isn’t linked to much weight gain in kids.

Animals

Mosquito flight is unlike that of any other insect

High-speed video and modeling reveal a more complex understanding of mosquito flight.

Anthropology

Neandertals had an eye for patterns

Neandertals carved notches in a raven bone, possibly to produce a pleasing or symbolic pattern, scientists say.

Oceans

Thinning ice creates undersea Arctic greenhouses

Arctic sea ice thinned by climate change increasingly produces conditions favorable for phytoplankton blooms in the waters below, new research suggests.

Astronomy

Asteroid in Jupiter’s orbit goes its own way

Asteroid shares Jupiter’s orbit around the sun but travels in the opposite direction as the planet.

Genetics

Gene editing of human embryos yields early results

Gene editing in embryos has started in labs, but isn’t ready for the clinic.