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  1. Health & Medicine

    Rotavirus vaccine is proving its worth

    Rotavirus vaccination cuts childhood intestinal infection hospitalizations in half.

    By Meghan Rosen
  2. Life

    Tracing molecules’ movement in nails may help fight fungus

    Tracking chemicals through the human nail may provide valuable insight for drug development.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  3. Climate

    Greenhouse effect from fossil fuels felt almost immediately

    The warming caused by burning fossil fuels is surpassed within months by the greenhouse gas effect of the released carbon dioxide, new research shows.

    By Thomas Sumner
  4. Physics

    Rogue waves don’t always appear unannounced

    Scientists may be able to forecast the arrival of anomalously large ocean swells, suggest scientists who analyzed the moments before rogue water waves and freak light flashes.

    By Andrew Grant
  5. Climate

    Global warming ‘hiatus’ just an artifact, study finds

    Skewed data may have caused the appearance of the recent global warming hiatus, new research suggests.

    By Thomas Sumner
  6. Neuroscience

    Female’s nose blocks scent of a male

    When a female mouse is in an infertile stage of her reproductive cycle, her nose cells don’t alert her brain to the presence of a potential mate.

    By Laura Sanders
  7. Paleontology

    Triceratops relative reveals dino diversity

    A newly discovered relative of Triceratops provides new insight into the evolution of horned dinosaurs.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  8. Genetics

    DNA tags mostly deleted in human germ cells

    Human embryos come with some heavy-duty erasers. Chemical tags on DNA get mostly wiped out in the womb.

    By Meghan Rosen
  9. Animals

    Pregnant male pipefish not so great at giving embryos oxygen

    During male pregnancy, pipefish embryos can get stunted by low oxygen in dad’s brood pouch.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Health & Medicine

    Deadly MERS spreads in small cluster in South Korea

    Thirty people have MERS virus in the South Korean outbreak, including China’s first case.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Health & Medicine

    An antidepressant may protect against Ebola

    Zoloft and a heart drug keep most mice alive after exposure to Ebola.

    By Nathan Seppa
  12. Planetary Science

    Pluto’s four littlest moons probably born in a crash

    On the eve of the arrival of the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto’s tiny moons hint at a common origin.

    By Christopher Crockett
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