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  1. Animals

    It’s an herbivore-kill-herbivore world

    Female prairie dogs killing babies of another species might keep competitors off the grass.

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  2. Neuroscience

    Brain holds more than one road to fear

    A study on rare patients suggests that fear can take many paths through the brain.

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  3. Animals

    Female burying beetle uses chemical cue to douse love life

    While raising their young, burying beetle mothers produce a chemical compound that limits their male partner’s desire to mate.

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  4. Earth

    CO2 shakes up theory of how geysers spout

    Carbon dioxide helps fuel eruptions of Spouter Geyser, and perhaps other features, in Yellowstone National Park, new research suggests.

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  5. Planetary Science

    Comets carried noble gases to Earth

    Asteroids might have delivered water to Earth, but comets could be responsible for noble gases and amino acids, a new study suggests.

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  6. Math

    Mathematicians find a peculiar pattern in primes

    Consecutive prime numbers don’t behave as randomly as mathematicians assumed.

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  7. Humans

    Pacific islanders got a double whammy of Stone Age DNA

    Neandertal and Denisovan genes influence the health of present-day Melanesians.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Lost memories retrieved for mice with signs of Alzheimer’s

    Using light, scientists coaxed a forgotten memory from the brains of mice with Alzheimer’s-like symptoms.

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  9. Materials Science

    Playing with building blocks for metamaterial design

    Legos show promise as a low-cost method to assist scientists in developing novel metamaterials.

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  10. Ecosystems

    Australian fairy circles first to be found outside Africa

    Strange patterns of grassland bald spots called fairy circles show up in Western Australia.

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  11. Planetary Science

    Wandering Jupiter could have swept inner solar system clean

    If Jupiter formed close to the sun and then wandered out, that might explain why there are no planets interior to Mercury’s orbit.

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  12. Paleontology

    New tyrannosaur bridges gap from medium to monstrous

    Horse-sized Timurlengia euotica had a brain and ears like its bigger relative Tyrannosaurus rex, which lived millions of years later.

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