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  1. Chemistry

    Chemistry Nobel granted for deciphering DNA repair

    Three researchers win chemistry Nobel for working out how cells fix damaged genetic material

    By Meghan Rosen and Sarah Schwartz
  2. Animals

    Oldest pregnant horselike fossil found

    A 48-million-year-old fossil of an early horse and fetus is the oldest and best-preserved specimen of its kind.

    By Natasha Gilbert
  3. Animals

    No eyes, no problem for color-sensing coral larvae

    Switching colors of underwater light can switch preferences for where staghorn corals choose their forever homes.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Particle Physics

    Neutrinos’ identity shift snares physics Nobel

    Arthur McDonald and Takaaki Kajita shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery that neutrinos oscillate between different types, which demonstrates that the particles have mass.