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  1. Humans

    Humans

    War spawns cooperation, plus microloan payoffs, preschool’s benefits and more in this week’s news.

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  2. Physics

    It lives and lases

    A glowing cell can produce laser light.

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  3. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Antimatter in a bottle, superfluid swirls, ladybug poisons and more in this week's news.

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  4. Earth

    Earth & Environment

    Climate change brings a thirstier West and thinner polar bears, plus parsing the sun and moon's effects in this week's news.

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  5. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Extreme sibling rivalry, mitochondrial breakups and tubular cells in this week’s news.

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  6. Beer bubble math

    The rate of change of bubble volume. If this quantity is positive, the bubble will grow; if it’s negative, it will shrink. A constant that depends on the temperature and the specific gas in the foam. (The foam on top of a glass of Guinness lasts unusually long because Guinness uses nitrogen in addition to […]

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  7. Math

    Beer bubble math helps to unravel some mysteries in materials science

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Fat joins suite of tastes, plus crossword vision, metastasis clues and more in this week’s news.

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  9. Life

    Diving spiders make their own gills

    Eurasian diving bell spiders, the only truly aquatic arachnids, survive underwater with the help of “physical gills,” scientists say.

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  10. Chemistry

    Water-air interface barely there

    The transition between gas and liquid is an extremely insubstantial affair.

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  11. Life

    Heart has cellular regeneration ability

    In mice, injecting a protein spurs the organ’s own stem cells to regrow small amounts of tissue after damage.

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  12. Tech

    Social Networks

    Power networks in Congress, Twitter’s crystal ball and iPhone contagion in news from an MIT workshop on information in social media.

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