News in Brief

  1. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Sight restored after 55 years, plus hockey-checking injuries, statins' diabetes link and more in this week's news.

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  2. Life

    Life

    Ultrasonic ribbits, saving dead trees and fishy retribution in this week’s news.

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  3. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Moons may be common, plus transforming neutrinos, new comet images and more in this week’s news.

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  4. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    A first look at the roots of sight, plus fading blues, steady birds and more in this week’s news.

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  5. Earth

    Earth & Environment

    Earth’s bulging waistline, plus ancient mangrove swamps and new threats from wildfires in this week’s news.

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  6. Life

    Genes & Cells

    A look at how ovarian cancer spreads, plus clues to aging and immune links to cancer in this week’s news.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    The health benefits of wheat and olive oil, plus Down syndrome dementia, a heartbreaking gene and more in this week’s news.

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  8. Life

    Life

    Danger moths get the girls, plus hibernating rabies and duck personalities in this week’s news.

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  9. Humans

    Humans

    War spawns cooperation, plus microloan payoffs, preschool’s benefits and more in this week’s news.

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  10. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Antimatter in a bottle, superfluid swirls, ladybug poisons and more in this week's news.

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  11. Earth

    Earth & Environment

    Climate change brings a thirstier West and thinner polar bears, plus parsing the sun and moon's effects in this week's news.

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  12. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Extreme sibling rivalry, mitochondrial breakups and tubular cells in this week’s news.

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