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Animals

Better bird nesting also good for giant manta rays

Disrupting tree canopies on a Pacific atoll discourages big fish off shore through a long chain of ecological consequences.

Chemistry

Dancing droplets reveal physics at work

Magnetic fields can deflect liquid oxygen subject to the unusual “Leidenfrost effect.”

Health & Medicine

Coffee gives jolt to life span

Unlike wine's, coffee's benefits apparently keep increasing well beyond the first two servings.

Space

Stellar superflares’ trigger challenged

Massive eruptions on sunlike stars might not require magnetic interactions from a big, hot, nearby planet.

Humans

Don’t listen to advice, and other advice from Nobel laureates

Top scientists share stories and words of wisdom with finalists at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.