Uncategorized
- Chemistry
Plants and predators pick same poison
Zygaena caterpillars and their herbaceous hosts independently evolved an identical recipe for cyanide.
- Life
Penguin declines may come down to krill
Lack of food appears to be hurting birds on the Antarctic Peninsula.
- Science & Society
Humans
Western views of fat adopted around the world, a link between a messy environment and stereotypes, and more in this week's news
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
3-D effects without the glasses, plus portable X-rays and linking qubits in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
American Association for Cancer Research
Anticancer power of strawberries, human papillomavirus linked to lung cancer and more news from the recent cancer research meeting.
- Earth
Earth/Environment
Forecasting volcanic eruptions, plus saving mangroves and long-distance pollution in this week’s news.
- Physics
Screwy symmetry revealed
Math trick that reverses spirals and other shapes that twist and turn should provide new ways to understand and design materials.
- Math
Cells take on traveling salesman problem
With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Food tastes less fatty to overweight people, plus an itch protein and thirsty rats in this week’s news.
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Genes & Cells
The genes for caffeine cravings, plus rare variants and shaping eyes in this week’s news.
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Hanging in the balance
What is the fate of the universe?
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Out of the fabric
Are space and time fundamental?
