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  1. Chemistry

    Bacteria staining method has long been misexplained

    New research upends what scientists know about a classic lab technique, called gram staining, used for more than a century to characterized and classify bacteria.

    By Beth Mole
  2. Microbes

    Possible nearest living relatives to complex life found in seafloor mud

    New phylum of sea-bottom archaea microbes could be closest living relatives yet found to the eukaryote domain of complex life that includes people.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Neuroscience

    Stimulating nerve cells stretches time between thinking, doing

    A head zap can stretch the time between intention and action.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Chemistry

    Sugar-cleaving molecule raises hope for universal blood

    An engineered enzyme can quickly slice and dice some A and B markers from blood cells, bringing researchers closer to creating universal blood.