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- Microbes
Get to know your microbes at ‘The Secret World Inside You’
The American Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit rehabilitates bacteria’s bad reputation and introduces visitors to the microbiome.
- Animals
Sharks follow their noses home
Leopard sharks draw on scents to navigate back to shore, study suggests.
- Chemistry
Experiment offers glimpse at how to make hydrogen metallic
A new phase of hydrogen could represent the stepping stone for transforming element 1 into a metal.
- Chemistry
Experiment offers glimpse at how to make hydrogen metallic
A new phase of hydrogen could represent the stepping stone for transforming element 1 into a metal.
- Psychology
Kids grasp words as symbols before learning to read
Preschoolers grasp that written words refer to specific things before they learn to read.
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- Astronomy
Supernova captured in quadruple comes back for an encore
A supernova that has already appeared four times is back for an encore.
- Health & Medicine
High-intensity interval training has great gains — and pain
Intense spurts of activity followed by brief rest can improve heart health, blood glucose and muscle endurance. But some question if the pain of HIIT workouts will impede the popularity.
- Health & Medicine
50 years ago, a promising agent pulled
DMSO was promised to cure everything from headache to the common cold. But human testing stopped in 1965.
- Animals
When tarantulas grow blue hair
Azure coloring is surprisingly common in the spiders, though they themselves are colorblind.
- Physics
Aircraft industry could take tips from penguins
Tiny grooves and an oily sheath prevent water droplets from freezing on the feathers of some penguins.
- Science & Society
Climate, new physics and Jupiter on the horizon for 2016
The first issue of the new year features stories about what will, editor in chief Eva Emerson predicts, hold on as scientific newsmakers during 2016.
