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Plants

World’s fastest plant explodes with pollen

A high-speed camera has revealed the explosive pollen launches of bunchberry dogwood flowers as the fastest plant motion known.

Planetary Science

Renegade moon

Saturn's outlier moon Phoebe didn't coalesce from material near the ringed planet but was captured from the distant Kuiper belt.

Health & Medicine

Vaccine Gains: Shot protects seniors from shingles flare-ups

An experimental vaccine prevents half of all cases of shingles, a painful skin disease that typically afflicts the elderly.

Tech

Smart Trap: Nanosensor tracks major brain chemical

The study of neurological diseases and brain functions could get a lot more precise with the invention of an optical sensor that can closely monitor a key chemical in the brain.