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  1. Paleontology

    The dinosaur ‘chicken from hell’

    Fossils suggest that a supersized chickenlike reptile called Anzu wyliei roamed what are now the Dakotas roughly 67 million years ago.

    By Ashley Yeager
  2. Life

    Vitamin A deficit in the womb hurts immune development

    Mice deprived of vitamin A in utero grow up with undersized immune organs.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Animals

    Like a boomerang, relocated python comes back again

    Burmese pythons, which have invaded the Everglades, can find their way home when people move them dozens of kilometers.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Genetics

    Early Polynesians didn’t go to Americas, chicken DNA hints

    Contamination of ancient chicken DNA may explain previous report linking Polynesians to South America.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Math

    Our Mathematical Universe

    Math is everywhere: medicine, sports, banking, gambling, National Security Agency espionage.

    By Tom Siegfried
  6. Genetics

    Giant moa thrived before people reached New Zealand

    Humans probably caused the extinction of giant wingless birds called moa in New Zealand, DNA evidence suggests.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  7. Space

    Exoplanet oxygen may not signal alien life

    Oxygen in an exoplanet atmosphere may come from water and ultraviolet light, not alien life.

    By Christopher Crockett
  8. Cosmology

    Gravitational waves unmask universe just after Big Bang

    For the first time, researchers have seen traces of superfast cosmic expansion and gravity waves.

    By Christopher Crockett
  9. Physics

    A tractor beam reels in objects with sound

    A tractor beam of focused sound waves has pulled on an object as large as a Toblerone chocolate bar.

    By Andrew Grant
  10. Psychology

    How string quartets stay together

    New data tracking millisecond-scale corrections suggests that some ensembles are more autocratic — following one leader —while other musical groups are more democratic, making corrections equally.

    By Ashley Yeager
  11. Ecosystems

    Do your bit for bumblebees

    The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and its partners have launched the Bumble Bee Watch website to track sightings. When you see a bee bumbling around, snap a photo.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  12. Science & Society

    Slight boost for U.S. climate research funding

    While most science funding remains flat lined in President Obama’s 2015 budget, climate change research gets an increase.

    By Beth Mole