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Neuroscience

Part of brain’s pleasure network curbed in mice with chronic pain

Part of brain’s pleasure network is muffled in mice with chronic paw injuries, a new study finds.

Health & Medicine

Resistance to key malaria drug spreads

Parasites that are less susceptible to artemisinin now affect several Asian countries.

Paleontology

Dinosaurs shrank continually into birds

Steady miniaturization and rapidly changing skeletons transformed massive animals into today’s fliers.

Astronomy

When looking for aliens, try finding their pollution

Future telescopes may discover civilized aliens by detecting the industrial pollutants called fluorinated gases in exoplanet atmospheres.