News
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New ant species plunders other ants’ farms
A newly discovered Megalomyrmex ant specializes in raiding the nest gardens of fungus-cultivating ant species.
- Health & Medicine
Vision: The risks of being too fat or too tall
Excess weight or height can have a blinding impact, fostering the development of cataracts.
- Paleontology
Genes Seem to Link Unlikely Relatives
Genetic markers on three proteins suggest a common African ancestor for elephants, aardvarks, elephant shrews, golden moles, and other animals.
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The Last Three Minutes
Computing the shape of gravitational waves to come
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Astronomy
Observations of remnants of supernova 1987A by camera and spectrograph have furnished new clues to the life of a star whose catastrophic explosion astronomers witnessed four years ago.
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Astronomy
A sprinkling of distant star clusters, throwing tantrums in stellar nurseries, polar winds and excretion disks, new echoes of supernova 1987A, and low-budget stellar spectroscopy.
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Astronomy
Ringing up another light echo, and the Milky Way's third population.
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