News

  1. Space

    New cosmic distance record-holder

    A faraway galaxy hails from a time when the 13.7-billion-year-old universe was a mere 600 million years old.

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  2. Life

    Splices of time

    Organisms distinguish day and night by shifting the way genes are interpreted.

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  3. Animals

    Lady MacBee

    In one stingless Brazilian species, young queens shut out of succession in their own hives often usurp another colony’s throne.

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  4. Physics

    Holy moley

    Adding more decimal places to Avogadro constant could produce a better definition of the kilogram.

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  5. Life

    Climate changes, and there goes the neighborhood

    The ranges of rattlesnakes and voles are likely to shift drastically with warming, analyses of past changes suggest.