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Health & Medicine

Slacker rat, worker rat

Rodent work ethic, like people’s, comes in two types.

Life

Fossils show signs of earliest burrowing

Worms’ seafloor tunneling more than a half-billion years ago could have stirred up evolutionary forces.

Earth

Venice falling

Compacting soil means the flood-prone city continues to sink.

Physics

Order from disorder

Collective motion emerges spontaneously in wiggling protein strands.

Life

The farther the better for corals after oil spill

Deepwater organisms may be slow to recover from Gulf accident.