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  1. New Takes on Historic Quakes

    Two centuries on, scientists revisit the magnitudes of New Madrid’s biggest rumbles.

    By Science News
  2. Plants

    Flirty Plants

    Searching for signs of picky, competitive mating in a whole other kingdom.

    By Susan Milius

  3. A Spitting Image of Health

    How saliva can help doctors diagnose disease.

    By Susan Gaidos

  4. Darwin’s Tongues

    Languages, like genes, can tell evolutionary tales.

    By Bruce Bower

  5. Space Eats

    Astronaut journey to Mars requires new age nibbles.

    By Alexandra Witze

  6. Lopped Off

    Removal of top predators trickles through the food web.

    By Nadia Drake

  7. Beware the Long Tail

    Economic models of risk don’t add up, cadre of researchers caution.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg

  8. Like a Bolt from Above

    Lightning scientists begin to solve electric mysteries.

    By Alexandra Witze
  9. Health & Medicine

    Reviving A Tired Heart

    With a bit of encouragement, the life-giving muscle may renew itself.

    By Laura Beil
  10. Physics

    The Ultimate Clock

    Keeping precise time on the universe’s scale.

    By Charles Petit
  11. Astronomy

    A Shadowed Past

    Understanding of moon’s earliest days gets even murkier.

    By Nadia Drake
  12. Life

    Singled Out

    How to study cells, one by one.

    By Susan Gaidos