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  1. Humans

    Babies see human hand behind ordered events

    Experiments find that infants attribute actions to people.

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  2. Plants

    Chemists pin down poppy’s tricks for making morphine

    Scientists have figured out two of the final key steps in the chain of chemical reactions that the opium poppy uses to synthesize morphine, suggesting possible signaling strategies for new ways of making the drug and its cousin painkillers.

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  3. Chemistry

    Pit vipers’ night vision explained

    A new study finds the protein responsible for snakes’ sense of heat.

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