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  1. Animals

    Newly discovered big-headed ants use spines for support

    Two newly discovered ant species provide new insights into spiny evolution.

    By Cassie Martin
  2. Earth

    New scenario proposed for birth of Pacific Plate

    The Pacific tectonic plate formed at the junction of three other plates and above of the remains of a submerged plate, geophysicists propose.

    By Thomas Sumner
  3. Life

    The nose knows how to fight staph

    A bacterium isolated from the nose produces a new antibiotic active against resistant pathogens.

    By Eva Emerson
  4. Planetary Science

    Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is hot

    High temperatures over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot suggest that storms pump heat into the atmosphere and warm the entire planet.