News in Brief

  1. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    The brain sleeps in shifts, plus thinking better with folate, how brains feel the beat and more in this week's news.

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  2. Life

    Life

    Slacker fish, carnivorous pitfalls, a dinosaur gap and more in this week’s news.

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  3. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Runaway planets, the return of Neptune and tricky antineutrinos in this week’s news.

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  4. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Shaking off snake venom, flexible display screens and krill-sniffing penguins in this week's news.

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  5. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Tracking carbon dioxide, fingerprinting uranium and understanding phthalates in boys in this week's news.

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  6. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Human livers implanted in mice, plus new eye of newt, the potato genome and more in this week’s news.

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  7. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    A Saturnian storm, an asteroid visit, a leaky Betelgeuse and more in this week's news.

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  8. Humans

    Humans

    Poorer families take bigger risks, plus untrustworthy mugs and adulterous wives in this week's news.

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  9. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Tibetan singing bowls, supersized Rubik's Cubes and sound-squeezing soda cans in this week's news

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  10. Earth

    Earth & Environment

    Mountaintop mining, plastic fish and the return of the right whale in this week's news

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  11. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Chromosomal risks of fertility treatment, vitamin A for vaccines and clues to brain cancer in this week's news.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    A good massage can help, plus bed nets for babies, sugar counteracts fish and more in this week's news.

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