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  1. Health & Medicine

    Nobel Prize in medicine given for HIV, HPV discoveries

    Three Europeans recognized for linking viruses to AIDS, cervical cancer.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Climate

    Science academies call for climate action

    Thirteen national academies of science today called on world leaders to “to limit the threat of climate change.” Read more in the current Science & the Public blog by Janet Raloff.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Plants

    Move it or lose it

    Climate change may have dire consequences for California’s native plants, which may need to take refuge in some the areas under pressure for development.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  4. Earth

    Seafloor chronicles

    Survey of ocean floor reveals long history, from a geological fault to the wreckage of the Lusitania.

    By Sid Perkins
  5. Math

    The tell-tale anecdote

    An Edgar Allan Poe story reveals a flaw in game theory.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  6. Chemistry

    Silk

    Mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  7. Math

    The squint method of data analysis

    Mathematicians discover a Klein bottle hidden within the data underlying photographs

    By Julie Rehmeyer

  8. Stranded: A whale of a mystery

    Scientists generally agree that sonar can trigger strandings of certain whales, but no one really knows what leads these deep divers to the beach.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  9. Chemistry

    Catching your breath

    Scientists are investigating how to use the human breath to diagnose diseases and environmental ills.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  10. Physics

    Galaxy Zoo’s blue mystery (part I)

    A Dutch science teacher found a novel celestial object that had eluded the notice of astronomers.

    By Janet Raloff
  11. Astronomy

    Stellar Switch: Sun not alone in making magnetic flip-flops

    After years of searching, researchers have for the first time documented that a star other than the sun flips its magnetic poles.

    By Ron Cowen

  12. Growing Up to Prozac: Drug makes new neurons mature faster

    Prozac may relieve depression by stimulating growth and maturation of neurons in some parts of the brain.

    By Tina Hesman Saey