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  1. Neuroscience

    Some healthy fish have bacteria in their brains

    Animals including mammals usually protect their brains from infiltrating microbes that can cause disease. But some fish seem to do just fine.

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  2. Anthropology

    Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing

    Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

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  3. Particle Physics

    The Large Hadron Collider exposes quarks’ quantum entanglement

    Top quarks and antiquarks produced in the Large Hadron Collider are entangled, a study shows.

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  4. Space

    Meet Porphyrion, the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen

    The two plasma fountains, spanning 23 million light-years, could shape cosmic structures far beyond their home galaxy.

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  5. Neuroscience

    Mitochondria can sneak DNA into the nuclei of brain cells

    An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.

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  6. Physics

    How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system 

    Flybys of primordial black holes may occur once a decade. Tweaks to the orbits of planets and GPS satellites could give away their presence.

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  7. Plants

    Projectile pollen helps this flower edge out reproductive competition

    With explosive bursts of pollen, male Hypenea macrantha flowers knock some competitors’ deposits off hummingbird beaks before the birds reach females.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Pregnancy overhauls the brain. Here’s what that looks like

    Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil’s brain scans before, during and after pregnancy are providing the first view of a mom-to-be’s structural brain changes.

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  9. Space

    How a dying star is similar to a lava lamp

    In a first, astronomers captured how convective forces power the quick bubbling movement of gas cells on the surface of a distant, massive star.

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  10. Climate

    Can solar farms and crop farms coexist?

    Researchers working in the field of agrivoltaics are studying how to combine solar farming with grazing, crop production or ecological restoration.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Can taking ashwagandha supplements improve health?

    Ashwagandha is all over TikTok. Some studies report benefits, but more research is needed.

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  12. Planetary Science

    Scientists find a long-sought electric field in Earth’s atmosphere

    The Earth’s ambipolar electric field is weak but strong enough to control the shape and evolution of the upper atmosphere.

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