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Genetics

Gene gives mice and chipmunks their pinstripes

A recycled regulator paints on rodents’ light stripes.

Neuroscience

Eyes offer window into brain’s timekeepers

In new experiments of time perception, when pupils were large, monkeys underestimated a second.

Psychology

Learning curve not so smooth

Preschoolers tend to reach a milestone of social thinking after months of fits and starts.

Paleontology

Early birds could achieve liftoff

Early birds and other flying dinosaurs had the strong legs and wing speed needed to launch into the air directly from the ground, researchers argue.

Life

Scientists need to redraw picture of cell’s biggest organelle

A close-up view of the cell’s endoplasmic reticulum reveals a different structure.