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  1. Ecosystems

    Deep-sea trawling threatens oceans’ health

    Dragging large nets along the seafloor to catch fish cuts organic matter and biodiversity in half and may threaten all of the world's underwater ecosystems.

    By Ashley Yeager
  2. Science & Society

    Trust in gravity isn’t always the best astronomy policy

    Historical episodes involving Neptune, Mercury and gravity have implications for today’s dark matter and dark energy mysteries.

    By Tom Siegfried
  3. Planetary Science

    Rosetta spacecraft’s comet develops dusty envelope

    Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the target of ESA’s Rosetta mission, has developed a dust coma.

    By Ashley Yeager
  4. Animals

    How an octopus keeps itself out of a tangle

    The suckers on an octopus stick to just about anything, except the octopus itself. Scientists think they’ve figured out why.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  5. Health & Medicine

    How Kawasaki disease may blow in with the wind

    The origin of Kawasaki disease has been linked to farmlands in northeastern China.

    By Ashley Yeager
  6. Climate

    Forest fires may speed demise of Greenland’s ice sheet

    Black carbon released by burning woodland darkens Greenland’s ice sheet, quickening its melt.

    By Beth Mole
  7. Animals

    Lizards may scale back head bobbing to avoid predators

    Brown anoles may scale back mating signals to avoid being eaten.

    By Meghan Rosen
  8. Health & Medicine

    Study on pregnant women’s driving has some potholes

    New study finds that pregnancy makes women get into more car accidents, but there could be a simpler explanation.

    By Laura Sanders
  9. Physics

    ‘The Sound Book’ explores echoes, bad acoustics and more

    Acoustic engineer Trevor Cox provides an international tour of aural amazements.

    By Sid Perkins
  10. Particle Physics

    Proposed experiment would create matter from light

    Photon collider would convert light into electrons and positrons.

    By Andrew Grant
  11. Life

    ‘The Amoeba in the Room’ uncloaks a hidden realm of tiny life

    Mycologist Nicholas Money reveals the secret (and dramatic) lives of amoebas, bacteria, fungi and other often-overlooked microbes in The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes.

    By Allison Bohac
  12. Animals

    For upside-down sloths, what goes down can’t come up

    Upside-down sloths have to hold their organs up and their food down.

    By Susan Milius