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  1. Animals

    How one enslaving wasp eats through another

    A wasp that forces oaks to grow a gall gets tricked into digging an escape tunnel for its killers.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Physics

    Superfluid helium behaves like black holes

    Simulations of superfluid helium show it follows the same unusual entropy rule that black holes do.

    By Emily Conover
  3. Animals

    Tropical bedbugs outclimb common bedbugs

    A study of bedbug traps and feet names finds that tropical bedbugs are much better at scaling slippery walls than common bedbugs.

    By Helen Thompson
  4. Animals

    Tropical bedbugs outclimb common species

    A study of bedbug traps and feet names finds that tropical bedbugs are much better at scaling slippery walls than common bedbugs.

    By Helen Thompson
  5. Health & Medicine

    See how bacterial blood infections in young kids plummeted after vaccines

    Rates of pneumococcal bacteremia in children plummeted by 95 percent after the introduction of vaccines against Streptococcus bacteria.

    By Laura Sanders
  6. Astronomy

    Distant galaxies lack dark matter, study suggests

    Slower-than-expected velocities of stars in distant galaxies, if confirmed, could reshape astronomers’ ideas of galaxy formation and evolution.

    By Ashley Yeager
  7. Neuroscience

    Making a mistake can put your brain on ‘pause’

    When there’s not much time to recover, one error can lead to another.

    By Laurel Hamers
  8. Science & Society

    Online reviews can make over-the-counter drugs look way too effective

    Online patient reviews put a far more misleading spin on medications than clinical trials do.

    By Bruce Bower
  9. Climate

    Changing climate could worsen foods’ nutrition

    Climate change could aggravate hidden hunger by sapping micronutrients from soils and plants, reducing nutrition in wheat, rice and other crops.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Quantum Physics

    Quantum counterfeiters might succeed

    Physicists demonstrate security issue with quantum cash.

    By Emily Conover
  11. Astronomy

    In new Cassini portraits, Saturn’s moon Pan looks like pasta

    Photographs taken this week by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provide a closer view of Saturn’s small moon Pan, which resembles ravioli.

    By Helen Thompson
  12. Astronomy

    Saturn’s moon Pan looks like ravioli

    Photographs taken this week by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provide a closer view of Saturn’s small moon Pan, which resembles ravioli.

    By Helen Thompson