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- Chemistry
For truffle aroma, it’s not all about location
Genes, not environment, play a key role in the prized fungus’s scent.
- Life
Pesticide-dosed bees lose future royalty, way home
Unusual field tests reveal how common insecticides, even at nonfatal doses, can erode colonies and threaten the future of bumblebees and honeybees.
By Susan Milius - Chemistry
Life’s building blocks grow close to home
Chemical reactions in the early solar system create complex organic molecules.
By Nadia Drake - Health & Medicine
Mapping the brain’s superhighways
New scans created using diffusion MRI technique reveal an order to information flow in the mind.
- Physics
Cloaks for hiding heat
A proposed invisibility cloak for heat could shield computers or satellites from high temperatures.
- Health & Medicine
Psoriasis drugs show promise
Two new drugs attack psoriasis by inhibiting interleukin-17, a focal player in the troublesome skin disease.
By Nathan Seppa - Humans
New ancestor grasped at walking
By 3.4 million years ago, two human relatives built differently for upright movement inhabited East Africa.
By Bruce Bower -
- Life
Fossils show signs of earliest burrowing
Worms’ seafloor tunneling more than a half-billion years ago could have stirred up evolutionary forces.
By Devin Powell -
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- Life
The farther the better for corals after oil spill
Deepwater organisms may be slow to recover from Gulf accident.