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Health & Medicine

Addicts and siblings share brain features

The finding suggests that diminished self-control and other behaviors may have a genetic component.

Earth

Some corals like it hot

Western Australian reefs are faring better than their eastern counterparts, at least for now.

Life

Plants swap chloroplasts via grafts

The energy-converting cellular organs can pass through connections, carrying genetic material with them.

Chemistry

Muscle massage may speed healing

Rubbing sore, overworked areas trips anti-inflammatory switches in the tissue that might speed healing and ease pain.

Earth

Big volcanoes wake up fast

Crystal chemistry suggests magma changes quickly before a huge eruption.