Science News Staff

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  1. Life

    To do: Exhibits to explore in the U.S. and London

    Highlights include the impending arrival of a T. rex skeleton in Washington, D.C., a pterosaur exhibit coming to New York City, and the history of longevity at the Royal Society in London.

  2. Climate

    Natural climate shifts affect sea level rise

    A recent dip in the rate of sea level rise may be due to natural climate variability.

  3. Tech

    English Channel tunnel

    First proposed in 1802 as a tunnel for horse-drawn carriages, the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel, was built starting in 1987 and opened in 1994.

  4. Planetary Science

    Mercury is more shriveled than originally thought

    Like a week-old party balloon, Mercury has shrunk over the last 4.6 billion years.

  5. Life

    Cell visible by own light

  6. Planetary Science

    Feedback

    Readers respond to a special report on neuroscience and discuss moon dust.

  7. Neuroscience

    Heartbeats help people see

    People were more likely to spot a flash of a hard-to-see ring when the image was presented right after a heartbeat

  8. Planetary Science

    Asteroid disintegrates while spinning too fast

    Asteroid P/2013 R3 is shattering into a cloud of debris in these images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

  9. Agriculture

    Where antibiotics go

    Of the 51 tons of antibiotics consumed every day in the United States, about 80 percent goes into animal production.

  10. Astronomy

    Star cluster hurtles through space with tremendous speed

    A compact ball of hundreds of thousands of stars has just shot out of the galaxy M87 at millions of kilometers per hour, astronomers report. It is the first hypervelocity globular cluster detected to date.

  11. Astronomy

    Kepler data confirm 715 new exoplanets

    The population of planets outside the solar system has grown by about 70 percent, thanks to discoveries culled from Kepler space telescope data. Researchers are announcing 715 new confirmed planets in a February 26 press conference.

  12. Environment

    Handling receipts increases exposure to BPA

    People who handle cash register receipts printed on thermal paper show notable exposure to bisphenol A.