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- Earth
Wet terrain responsible for Iceland’s hollow lava towers
Normally found underwater, the rocky structures form on land too.
- Health & Medicine
Waiting to exhale
Scientists sift through the chemical potpourri that escapes our lungs for new ways to diagnose disease.
- Neuroscience
Mind to motion
Brain-computer interfaces promise new freedom for the paralyzed and immobile.
- Planetary Science
Moon material on Earth
Scientists now think that tektites are a type of impactite, formed during the rapid heating and cooling of material ejected when a meteorite strikes Earth.
- Astronomy
Astronomers explain planets’ backward motion
Giant planets in distant orbits may be reversing the direction of their closer-in neighbors.
- Animals
How ticks get under your skin
A close look at a tick’s mouthparts reveals enviable burrowing tools.
- Life
Steroids boost muscles for the long haul
Experiments in mice suggest that effects don’t end when doping does.
- Cosmology
Dark energy search gets murkier
Supernova measurements muddle scientists’ efforts to explain universe’s accelerating expansion.
- Health & Medicine
Exercise seems to limit bad falls in elderly
Regular exercise might limit broken bones due to bad falls in elderly people.
- Life
Morel mushroom may grow crop of its own
A fungus could be a farmer itself, sowing, cultivating and harvesting bacteria.
- Cosmology
Candidates for dark matter particles bite the dust
Most sensitive experiment yet determines that earlier findings were just artifacts.
