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  1. Life

    Mellow corals beat the heat

    Species that overreact to distress signals from algae are more likely to succumb to warming.

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  2. Psychology

    Kids own up to ownership

    Children value personal ownership more than adults do and may need to learn when to disregard possessive urges.

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  3. Physics

    What it means to ‘feel the noise’

    Scientists investigating the nexus between sound and touch suggest that the ear arose from skin.

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  4. Earth

    Hawaii heat source debated

    A pancake, not a plume, may fuel the island chain’s volcanoes.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Bacterial meningitis keeps falling

    Vaccination against a strep bacterium and other microbes has proved a potent deterrent over the past decade, a nationwide survey shows.