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  1. Genetics

    Drug candidate fails to improve symptoms of fragile X syndrome

    A drug designed to treat fragile X syndrome has proven ineffective in clinical trials.

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  2. Animals

    Capturing the wonders of hummingbird flight

    Recent computer simulations reveal how hummingbirds manipulate the air around them to aid in flight.

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  3. Animals

    Ants don’t make decisions on the move

    Worker ants stand still while processing environmental cues and planning their next moves, a new study suggests.

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  4. Paleontology

    Fossils provide link in dino crest evolution

    Fossils from a newly identified duck-billed dinosaur in Montana could explain how their descendants developed flamboyant nose crests.

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  5. Animals

    The fine art of hunting microsnails

    Flotation, tact and limestone all prove vital to the quest for microsnails.

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  6. Neuroscience

    His stress is not like her stress

    When the pressure doesn’t let up, men and women react differently. The root of the difference may be messaging within the brain.

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  7. Animals

    The moon drives the migration of Arctic zooplankton

    In the darkness of the Arctic winter, the moon replaces the sun as the driver of zooplankton migration, a new study finds.

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  8. Animals

    The mites living on your face probably run in your family

    Demodex folliculorum mites, which live on human skin, have probably evolved with their hosts over time.

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  9. Neuroscience

    Pain produces memory gain

    Searing pain can burn memories into the brain.

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  10. Cosmology

    ‘Origins’ offers science-based account of creation

    In Origins, a science writer compiles an ambitious yet concise history of the universe and life on Earth.

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  11. Life

    Body’s bacteria don’t outnumber human cells so much after all

    New calculations show human cells about equal bacteria in the body.

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  12. Animals

    Small lizard packs powerful tongue

    A tiny chameleon from South Africa sets an acceleration and power record for amniotes.

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