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  1. Animals

    Honey-Scented Elephants: Young males’ faces drip sweet signals

    An Asian bull elephant just reaching maturity secretes a liquid from glands on its face that smells like honey.

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  2. Fly naps inspire dreams of sleep genetics

    Researchers have discovered a sleep-like state in the fruit fly.

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  3. Aphids with Attitude

    A few aphid species that live socially in groups raise their own armies of teenage female clones.

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  4. Beer-flavoring compounds guide insects

    The class of compounds that give beer its bitterness does two more sober jobs in Hypericum flowers.

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  5. Physics

    Seeking the Mother of All Matter

    World's mightiest particle collider may transform less-than-nothing into a primordial something.

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  6. Plants

    Fringy flowers are hard to dunk

    The fringe on the edges of the floating blooms of water snowflake flowers helps protect the important parts from getting drenched in dunkings.

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  7. Plants

    Mirror Image: Flowers with opposite styles have a fling

    Scientists have discovered a gene that controls whether flowers lean to the left or the right.

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  8. Senior bees up all night caring for larvae

    Honeybees turn out to be the first insect known to change circadian rhythms just because of a social cue, a crisis in the nursery.

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  9. Isn’t It a Bloomin’ Crime?

    Darwin called them felons, those creatures that take nectar without pollinating anything, but some modern scientists are reopening the case.

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  10. Phew! Orchid perfume turns revolting

    Orchids that can smell so alluring that bees try to mate with them can also smell repulsive to the insects.

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  11. Insects deploy sticky feet with precision

    Sticky ant and bee footpads retract and unfold in time with insect steps, so the insects don't trip over their own sticky feet.

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  12. Paleontology

    Did ancient superbees squash diversity?

    The recent discovery of several dozen extinct bee species in ancient amber deposits has led one paleontologist to propose that the very success of some bees' social lifestyle led to today's dearth of hive-dwelling species.

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