News
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Psychology
Narcissists need no reality check
Masters of vanity know they’re arrogant and disliked, but see own bigheadedness as justified.
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Physics
A cloak in time
Physicists hide events in the laboratory for trillionths of a second.
By Devin Powell -
Animals
Baboon bosses get stressed for success
In the wild, the most powerful males reign tensely.
By Bruce Bower -
Math
Varying efficacy of HIV drug cocktails explained
Steepness of slope in dose-response curve tips off researchers to importance of timing in virus’s life cycle.
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Life
Oil spill didn’t hurt seagrass-dwelling juvenile fish
Long-term effects of early exposure to hydrocarbons remains unknown.
By Janet Raloff -
Life
Learnin’ lizards
Underrated reptiles figure out what to do when the old rules change.
By Susan Milius -
Space
Astronomers probe matter in early universe
Smeared light from the dawn of time confirms ideas about a mysterious dark energy permeating the cosmos.
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Space
Iapetus gets dusted
Saturn moon gets its yin-yang surface by plowing through a ring of dust.
By Nadia Drake -
Earth
Simulation tracks ocean’s missing heat
Climate scientists suggest energy is buried deep undersea or released to space.
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Chemistry
Fats stimulate binge eating
Much like marijuana, fatty foods can spur overeating, a study in rats shows. The new finding also suggests possible therapies to combat the munchies.
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Animals
Chimp has an ear for talk
Human-raised Panzee challenges the notion that only people can discern acoustically altered words.
By Bruce Bower -
Life
Environment blamed for autism
A new study of twins downplays the role of genes in determining who will get autism.