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- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
Sticky graphene, dried-up coffee, a panda pregnancy test and more in this week’s news.
- Earth
Earth/Environment
A killer methane belch, radon-siphoning trees, deep oil-spill science and more in this week’s news.
- Space
Going where no Mars rover has gone before
NASA's next Mars mission, Curiosity, will land in the Red Planet's Gale Crater.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Genes for butterfly wings and maintaining maleness, plus turtles meet their lizard relatives and more in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Knights’ bodily burden, go-to-sleep nerve cells, rat empathy and more in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
‘Wave of death’ may not be a last gasp
A minute after decapitation, a rat's severed head shows signs of life.
- Psychology
Kids share, chimps stash
Divvying up goods comes easily to 3-year-old kids but not to adult chimps, a finding with evolutionary implications.
- Physics
Particle discovery fills a gap
The neutral xi-sub-b is the eighth of nine predicted family members to be found.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
The brain sleeps in shifts, plus thinking better with folate, how brains feel the beat and more in this week's news.
- Earth
Small volcanoes add up to cooler climate
Airborne particles sent skyward by eruptions since 2000 have counteracted the warming effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.
- Life
A tryst, then the power to resist
House mice in Europe got some of their tolerance for rodenticides from hybridizing with a completely different species
- Life
The lion eats tonight …
Attacks on humans peak after a full moon, when feline bellies tend to rumble.
