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- Astronomy
Supernova may have kicked off solar system
Force of explosion could explain chemical mysteries contained within asteroids.
By Nadia Drake - Humans
Future wars may be fought by synapses
Neuroscientists consider defense applications of recent insights into how the brain works.
- Health & Medicine
Hands off and on in schizophrenia
A broken connection to one’s physical self may cause a rubber hand to seem like a real one.
By Bruce Bower - Health & Medicine
Prompt liver transplant boosts survival in heavy drinkers
Some patients with severe organ inflammation from alcohol use can benefit from the operation.
By Nathan Seppa - Space
How the moon got its magnetism
Earth’s tug or asteroid impacts may have generated the ancient lunar magnetic field.
By Nadia Drake - Life
Two steps to primate social living
Evolutionary shifts about 52 million and 16 million years ago led to the group structures observed today, researchers argue.
By Nick Bascom - Tech
Tiniest car gets a test drive
Scientists build the world's tiniest electric 'roadster,' and zap it into action.
- Life
A gland grows itself
Japanese researchers coax a pituitary to develop from stem cells in a lab dish.
- Life
Prehistoric horses came in leopard print
Dappled animals, once thought to be the result of selective breeding after domestication, were around when early humans depicted them on cave walls.
- Life
School rules
Fish coordinate with one, or perhaps two, of their neighbors to make group travel a swimming success.
By Devin Powell - Paleontology
DNA suggests North American mammoth species interbred
Supposedly separate types may really have been one.
By Susan Milius - Life
Giant beavers had hidden vocal talents
With air passageways in its skull like no other animal known, an extinct outsized rodent may have made sound all its own.
By Susan Milius