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Physics

Exciton

Getting excited can kick a person’s energy to a higher level. At the nanoscale, strange almost-particles called excitons do the same trick.

Psychology

Basketball players richly rewarded for selfishness in playoffs

Future paychecks trip up teamwork in NBA championship tournament.

Paleontology

Loblolly sets record for biggest genome

At 20 billion base pairs, the loblolly pine is the largest genome sequenced to date.

Science & Society

Anti-leukemia vaccine reported hope of future

Fifty years ago, Science News Letter reported on the promise of a vaccine to prevent leukemia. No preventive vaccine has come to pass, but leukemia vaccines as treatments has yielded promising results.