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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Animals

    How human activities may be creating coywolves

    Endangered red wolves will mate with coyotes when their partners are killed, which often happens because of human activities, a new study finds.

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  2. Animals

    Songbird crosses the Atlantic in a nonstop flight

    Using light-sensing geolocators, researchers confirm an iconic songbird’s impressive transoceanic migration.

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  3. Microbes

    Some superbugs lurk in Britain’s surf

    In Great Britain’s coastal waters, surfers and swimmers are exposed to low levels of drug-resistant E. coli, a new study finds.

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  4. Humans

    Egg-meet-sperm moments are equal opportunities for girls and boys

    Despite previous claims, equal numbers of male and female embryos are conceived, new data suggest.

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  5. Environment

    Fracking chemicals can alter mouse development

    Hormone-disrupting chemicals used in fracking fluid cause developmental changes in mice, new experiments show.

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  6. Science & Society

    White House unveils strategy against antibiotic resistance

    The Obama Administration has launched a long-term plan to curb antibiotic resistance, unveiling incentives and requirements designed to boost surveillance and diagnosis of resistant microbes.

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  7. Animals

    Panda stalking reveals panda hangouts

    Scientists used GPS trackers to learn about the giant panda lifestyle.

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  8. Life

    Bright bird plumage resulted from natural, sexual selection

    Darwin hypothesized that bird color differences resulted from sexual selection. Wallace disagreed. A study shows that both were right after all.

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  9. Neuroscience

    Our taste in music may age out of harmony

    Age-related hearing loss may be more than just the highest notes. The brain may also lose the ability to tell consonance from dissonance, a new study shows.

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  10. Animals

    For bats, simple traffic patterns limit collisions

    Humans aren’t the only ones who follow traffic rules. Bats do it too, researchers report.

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  11. Genetics

    Ebola virus not mutating as quickly as thought

    The virus causing the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa is not evolving as quickly as some scientists had suggested.

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  12. Life

    No-fishing scheme in Great Barrier Reef succeeds with valuable fishes

    Coral trout are thriving in marine protected areas in the Great Barrier Reef, but the no-take zones are having a smaller effect on other reef residents, a new 10-year report card shows.

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