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- Physics
Gators go a-courtin’ with fancy physics
Their subsonic mating bellows generate Faraday waves, a phenomenon almost never seen outside the lab.
- Earth
Germy with a chance of hail
Aerial microbes can trigger precipitation and may influence global warming.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
A cosmic collision heard ‘round the world, plus Saturn storms, black hole drains and more in this week’s news.
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- Chemistry
Natural pain-killing chemical synthesized
Conolidine — a headache to isolate from the plant that makes it — can now be produced from scratch in the lab, opening the promising compound to study.
- Life
Tarantulas shoot silk from their feet
The unique ability may give the heavy spiders a better grip and prevent deadly falls.
- Psychology
Geometric minds skip school
Villagers' understanding of lines and triangles raises questions about how people learn the properties of objects in space.
- Life
Suspect bacterium may trigger Parkinson’s
A study in mice shows that H. pylori, the microbe that causes stomach ulcers, may also affect the brain.
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
Finding materials harder than diamond, plus spintronic devices, wrinkle physics and more in this week's news.
- Earth
Earth/Environment
Earth’s iron heart can melt, plus Atlantic weather and more ice thinning in this week’s news.
- Physics
Rogue waves captured
Re-creating tiny versions of these monster swells in a laboratory tank reveals their mathematical underpinnings.
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From the Archive
In the late 1950s, roughly half the astronomers who voted on whether the universe began with a Big Bang said “No.”
