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- Life
Biologists go bats for storm-watch data
Borrowing meteorologists’ weather radar info may reveal new view of the ecology of flying animals.
- Health & Medicine
Tired, sure, but is it from Lyme disease or chronic fatigue?
A scan of proteins in spinal fluid reveals distinct signatures for these two conditions, offering hope for better diagnosis and possibly treatment.
- Health & Medicine
Digging into the roots of lupus
Two new studies implicate common white blood cells called neutrophils in this autoimmune disease.
- Humans
In-laws transformed early human society
A study of today's hunter-gatherers finds marital relationships help spread a social fabric.
- Earth
Understanding storm spin-offs
Meteorologists seeking to better predict tornadoes probe the differences between tempests that spawn twisters and those that don't.
- Life
Computer chips wired with nerve cells
Experiments could lead to ways of melding minds with machines.
- Life
Worries grow over monarch butterflies
Migrants overwintering in Mexico rebounded somewhat this past winter, but still trending downward.
- Math
Cells take on traveling salesman problem
With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.
- Health & Medicine
NFL heart profile good, with a caveat
Football players have higher blood pressure on average, new study finds.
- Physics
Raindrops go it alone
A new study using a high-speed camera finds the shattering of solitary drips can produce a variety of sizes.
- Health & Medicine
Twin towers fallout lingers
People who were near the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, have high asthma and post-trauma stress rates years later.
- Tech
Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work with light
Charles K. Kao wins for discoveries enabling fiber-optic communication, and Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith win for inventing the charge-coupled device
