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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.

Physics

A cloak in time

Physicists hide events in the laboratory for trillionths of a second.

Animals

Baboon bosses get stressed for success

In the wild, the most powerful males reign tensely.

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.

Life

Oil spill didn’t hurt seagrass-dwelling juvenile fish

Long-term effects of early exposure to hydrocarbons remains unknown.