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  1. Chemistry

    New method leaves older ways of 3-D printing in its goopy wake

    Finding the sweet spot in a pool of resin, chemists can create detailed 3-D objects faster than 3-D printers.

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  2. Paleontology

    Rise of East African Plateau dated by whale fossil

    A whale fossil is helping to pinpoint when the East African Plateau started to rise and how the uplift played a role in human evolution, scientists say.

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  3. Animals

    Getting stabbed is no fun for land snails

    When hermaphroditic land snails mate, they stab each other with “love darts.” But being darted comes at a price, a new study finds.

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  4. Materials Science

    Copper-wire ‘metamirror’ reflects selectively

    A metamaterial mirror reflects only a single wavelength of light, potentially leading to more compact and affordable radio antennas.

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  5. Chemistry

    Cooking up life’s ingredients, all in one pot

    An interconnected series of chemical reactions with a few primordial chemicals can cook up all the necessary elements of life

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  6. Health & Medicine

    In babies, turning down inflammation soothes the hurt

    Babies don’t feel nerve pain because their immune systems tamp down inflammation.

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  7. Quantum Physics

    Finding quantum entanglement in a crowd

    Physicists have measured entanglement between pairs of photons within a macroscopic beam of light, a first step toward understanding how particles’ quantum connections lead to large-scale effects.

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  8. Animals

    Nanocrystals explain chameleons’ color shifts

    Tiny crystals embedded in chameleons’ skin reflect specific wavelengths of light based on their position, explaining how chameleons change colors.

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  9. Animals

    A brain chemical tells when to fight or flee

    Crickets tally the knocks they take in a fight, and flee when their brains release nitric oxide to tell them they’ve had enough.

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  10. Archaeology

    Ring brings ancient Viking, Islamic civilizations closer together

    Ancient find fingers ninth century connection between Vikings and Islamic civilization.

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  11. Astronomy

    Super-Earths may form in two ways

    Rocky planets much heavier than Earth may form in different ways.

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  12. Planetary Science

    Aurora shift confirms Ganymede’s ocean

    New observations confirm the presence of a liquid saltwater ocean beneath the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede.

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