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Physics

Quantum theory gets physical

New work finds a physical basis for quantum mechanics.

Space

Atom & Cosmos

Runaway planets, the return of Neptune and tricky antineutrinos in this week’s news.

Space

Dawn on Vesta

New image from NASA asteroid mission reveals a relic of the early solar system.

Chemistry

Molecules/Matter & Energy

Shaking off snake venom, flexible display screens and krill-sniffing penguins in this week's news.

Earth

Earth/Environment

Tracking carbon dioxide, fingerprinting uranium and understanding phthalates in boys in this week's news.

Humans

Mirror system gets an assist

Study finds two brain systems are surprisingly active when an amputee observes a task she can’t perform.

Life

Genes & Cells

Human livers implanted in mice, plus new eye of newt, the potato genome and more in this week’s news.

Psychology

Narcissists need no reality check

Masters of vanity know they’re arrogant and disliked, but see own bigheadedness as justified.

Microbes

Whether for brains or bacteria, intelligence is all about food

Humans

Crime’s digital past

Computer science makes history, gleaning new findings from centuries' worth of transcripts from a Victorian-era courthouse.

Space

Lighting the universe

Scientists rethink what the first stars were like and how they formed.

Health & Medicine

Residents of the brain

It's a zoo in there: Scientists turn up startling diversity among neurons.