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- Earth
The facts behind the frack
The gas, primarily methane, is cheap and relatively clean. Because America is brimful of the stuff, harvesting the fuel via fracking could provide the country jobs and reduce its dependence on foreign sources of energy.
- Life
Genes & Cells
A boost for tired antibiotics, plus a fishy mom’s mucus and high-gravity microbes in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
Fish oil fails to hold off heart arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation patients who took capsules rich in omega-3 fatty acids had about as many episodes as those getting a placebo, a study finds.
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SN Online
ATOM & COSMOS Researchers finally detect muon neutrinos switching to electron neutrinos, plus more updates in “News in Brief: Atom & Cosmos.” GENES & CELLS Triggering sleep in fruit fly brains turns the bugs’ short-term memories into long-lived ones. Read “From Z’s to A’s.” LIFE Male cleaner fish punish females when they scare big clients […]
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Evolution’s Wedges
Finding the genes that drive one species into two.
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
Sticky graphene, dried-up coffee, a panda pregnancy test and more in this week’s news.
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- Life
Diving spiders make their own gills
Eurasian diving bell spiders, the only truly aquatic arachnids, survive underwater with the help of “physical gills,” scientists say.
- Earth
Earth/Environment
Scientists discover what causes the rumbles before a volcano erupts, plus more in this week’s news.
- Animals
DEET of the sea
Before turning in for the night, some reef-dwelling fish apply a slimy mucus shield to deter biting bugs.
