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Tech

This stretchy implant could help kids avoid repeated open-heart surgeries

A new type of surgical implant grows along with its recipient.

Life

Gut fungi might be linked to obesity and inflammatory bowel disorders

Fungi are overlooked contributors to health and disease.

Animals

To understand the origins of pain, ask a flatworm

A danger-sensing protein responds to hydrogen peroxide in planarians, results that hint at the evolutionary origins of people’s pain sensing.

Astronomy

Neutron star collision showers the universe with a wealth of discoveries

A collision of neutron stars was spotted with gravitational waves for the first time.