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  1. Animals

    Shrews’ noses grow in winter as their brains shrink

    Long-clawed shrews’ snouts temporarily grow larger in the winter. This skull reshaping may be an extreme survival strategy in cold conditions.

    By Jake Buehler
  2. Health & Medicine

    What Spider-Man gets right — and wrong — about turning off superpowers

    In 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' Peter Parker devises a superpower inhibitor based on a real therapy using RNA.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Animals

    Snail slime does many jobs thanks to calcium

    Snails have five distinct types of mucus, each with its own job. The mollusks tweak calcium secretions to get the chemical mixture just right.

    By Jake Buehler
  4. Health & Medicine

    The COVID-19 vaccine may offer brain cancer patients a surprise benefit

    A recent shot of the COVID-19 vaccine doubled survival time in glioblastoma patients who had undergone tumor biopsy or surgery.