News

  1. It’s a tough job, but native bees can do it

    An organic watermelon field in California near remnants of wild land still had enough bees of North American species to pollinate a commercial crop, but habitat-poor farms didn't.

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  2. Planetary Science

    Mars reveals more frozen water

    Planetary scientists have discovered ice near the edge of Mars' south polar cap.

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  3. Archaeology

    Old legend dies hard

    People who first entered King Tutankhamen's tomb did not suffer from a legendary curse but instead lived long lives.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Silencing a gene slows breast-tumor fighter

    The protein encoded by the HOXA5 gene plays a key role in fighting breast cancer, helping to switch on cancer-suppressing genes.

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  5. Hands, not eyes, hold clue to illusion

    Psychologists disprove a leading hypothesis for the size-weight illusion—an error that arises when people try to estimate the weights of two bodies of different sizes but the same mass.

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  6. Earth

    Candid cameras catch rare Asian cats

    Remote cameras have confirmed that despite 30 years of armed conflict, jungle cats and many other large mammals continue to thrive in Cambodia.

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  7. Brain wiring depends on multifaceted gene

    A single gene may produce 38,000 unique proteins that guide the growth of the developing brain.

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  8. Astronomy

    Sugarcoated news arrives from space

    Scientists spotted a simple sugar in interstellar space for the first time.

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  9. Paleontology

    Overlooked fossil spread first feathers

    A new look at a fossil that had been lying in a drawer in Moscow for nearly 30 years has uncovered the oldest known feathered animal.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Moms’ POPs, Sons’ Problems: Testicular cancer tied to a fetus’ pollutant contact

    Women who've had substantial exposure to certain environmental pollutants are more likely than other women to bear sons who develop testicular cancers.

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  11. Chemistry

    Jet Streams: Droplet behavior captured by high-speed camera

    A series of images has captured charged droplets spouting microscopic jets of fluid, a phenomenon that was proposed by Lord Rayleigh in 1882.

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  12. Losing Rhythm: Gene mutation causes heart problems

    Chinese researchers have for the first time identified a genetic defect that causes atrial fibrillation, a disorder in which the heart's upper chambers beat irregularly and too rapidly.

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