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Earth

Moby Dick meets Jaws

A recently discovered fossil demonstrates that giant whales weren’t always as gentle as they are today.

Health & Medicine

Controlling blood sugar may prevent eye problems in diabetes patients

Careful monitoring of glucose levels and taking drugs to control blood lipids and cholesterol can pay dividends, a large trial finds.

Space

Making lemonade with quantum lemons

Physicists produce “spooky action at a distance,” using a phenomenon that would usually disrupt it.

Ecosystems

Bats, wolves feel the heat

News from the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Laramie, Wyo.,