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  1. Math

    When Laziness Pays: Math explains how cooperation and cheating evolve

    Researchers have developed a mathematical model that helps explain how cooperation and cheating evolve among simple organisms.

    By Erica Klarreich
  2. Astronomy

    Ultimate Retro: Modern echoes of the early universe

    Two teams of astronomers have for the first time detected the surviving notes of a cosmic symphony created just after the Big Bang, when the universe was a foggy soup of matter and radiation.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Health & Medicine

    Antibiotics could save nerves

    Penicillin and its family of related antibiotics may prevent the type of nerve damage that occurs in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other diseases.