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  1. Microbes

    A fluffy, orange fungus could transform food waste into tasty dishes

    The fungus thrives on everything from soy pulp to bland custards, turning them into digestible foods with a surprisingly pleasant flavor.

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  2. Animals

    In a first, these bats were found to have toes that glow

    Hairs on the toes of Mexican free-tailed bats fluoresce under UV light, a new study reports. The function of the toe glow is unknown.

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  3. Life

    Remote seamounts in the southeast Pacific may be home to 20 new species

    A recent expedition to the intersection of two undersea mountain chains has revealed a new seamount and a rich world of deep-sea biodiversity.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    People with food and other allergies have a new way to treat severe reactions

    A new epinephrine nasal spray gives people a needle-free way to treat severe allergic reactions to food, insect venom and drugs.

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  5. Planetary Science

    The Webb telescope’s peek into a stellar nursery finds baby planets too

    Images by the James Webb telescope of six Jupiter-sized worlds, one of which may have a moon-forming disk, reveal clues into how planets and stars form.

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  6. Particle Physics

    The possibilities for dark matter have just shrunk — by a lot 

    The LZ dark matter experiment has ruled out weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, with a wide range of properties.

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  7. Earth

    Mantle waves buoy continents upward and bedeck them with diamonds

    A phenomenon occurring deep underground may explain how vast plateaus form far away from tectonic plate boundaries.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Extreme heat and rain are fueling rising cases of mosquito-borne diseases

    Extreme Climate Update looks at the perfect storm climate change is creating for mosquitoes and the diseases they carry, like dengue and West Nile.

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  9. A long-awaited cancer treatment reaches patients

    Print and Longform Managing Editor Erin Wayman discusses the recently approved T cell therapy for cancer patients.

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  10. Readers discuss hypothetical ‘tauonium’ atoms

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  11. Microbes

    More than 100 bacteria species can flourish in microwave ovens

    Swabs of 30 microwave ovens in different settings identified over 100 bacterial species, some of which could be pathogenic or cause food-borne disease.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    50 years ago, antibiotic resistant bacteria became a problem outside hospitals

    Infections from drug-resistant bacteria have skyrocketed over the last 50 years. Now, new technologies could help doctors save lives.

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