News in Brief
- Earth
Earth & Environment
Earth’s bulging waistline, plus ancient mangrove swamps and new threats from wildfires in this week’s news.
- Life
Genes & Cells
A look at how ovarian cancer spreads, plus clues to aging and immune links to cancer in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
The health benefits of wheat and olive oil, plus Down syndrome dementia, a heartbreaking gene and more in this week’s news.
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- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
Antimatter in a bottle, superfluid swirls, ladybug poisons and more in this week's news.
- Earth
Earth & Environment
Climate change brings a thirstier West and thinner polar bears, plus parsing the sun and moon's effects in this week's news.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Extreme sibling rivalry, mitochondrial breakups and tubular cells in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Fat joins suite of tastes, plus crossword vision, metastasis clues and more in this week’s news.
- Tech
Social Networks
Power networks in Congress, Twitter’s crystal ball and iPhone contagion in news from an MIT workshop on information in social media.
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- Space
Atom & Cosmos
NASA’s plans to sample an asteroid, good-bye to Spirit rover, Neptune’s spin and more in this week’s news.
