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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. Telescopes captured gamma rays, visible light and more from the smashup.

Earth

When the Larsen C ice shelf broke, it exposed a hidden world

Scientists plan urgent missions to visit the world the Larsen C iceberg left behind.