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  1. Animals

    New tree frog genus discovered in India

    Researchers unveil a newly identified tree frog genus from northeastern India that eats mom’s eggs.

    By Helen Thompson
  2. Plants

    ‘Lab Girl’ invites readers into hidden world of plants

    In Lab Girl, geobiologist Hope Jahren reveals secret lives of plants — and scientists.

    By Meghan Rosen
  3. Life

    Cities create accidental experiments in plant, animal evolution

    To look for evolution in human-scale time, pick a city and watch a lizard. Or some clover.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Archaeology

    Lasers unveil secrets and mysteries of Angkor Wat

    The world’s largest temple, Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, was revealed by laser and radar studies to be part of a sprawling medieval metropolis.

    By Bruce Bower
  5. Animals

    Wildfires are an unexpected threat to California condors

    Lead poisoning remains a threat to California condors, but a new review finds that wildfires may also be a danger to the big birds.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  6. Animals

    Mystery deepens for what made tarantulas blue

    Blue hair on tarantulas shows what evolution does with iridescence that females probably don’t care about.

    By Susan Milius
  7. Neuroscience

    Jessica Cantlon seeks the origins of numerical thinking

    Cognitive neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon wants to find out how humans understand numbers and where that understanding comes from.

    By Elizabeth Quill
  8. Animals

    Purpose of zebra stripes remains a mystery

    Zebra stripes don’t help the animals disappear in the vision of predators, a new study finds.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  9. Animals

    Great tits sing with syntax

    Humans are no longer the only species to use compositional syntax. Great tits do, too.

    By Helen Thompson
  10. Astronomy

    Some of sun’s magnetic fields may act more like forests

    A swaying forest of mangrovelike magnetic fields on the sun could be the answer to why the solar atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than the surface.

    By Christopher Crockett
  11. Astronomy

    Astronomers prepare for 2017 solar eclipse spectacle

    With one year to go, researchers are making plans for studying both the sun and Earth during the August 2017 total solar eclipse.

    By Christopher Crockett
  12. Animals

    Scientists find a crab party deep in the ocean

    A trip to check out the biodiversity off the coast of Panama revealed thousands of crabs swarming on the seafloor.

    By Sarah Zielinski