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Physics

Colliding dust grains charge each other up

Physicists propose a way that cloud particles can electrify themselves.

Life

Briny deep basin may be home to animals thriving without oxygen

Creatures living deep in the Mediterranean without oxygen would be a remarkable first, biologists say.

Space

Newfound neighbor to solar system is a cool slacker

Researchers have found the closest brown dwarf to Earth and the coolest yet seen, raising the possibility that the nearest starlike body to the solar system may be a brown dwarf rather than a star.

Health & Medicine

Walnuts may slow prostate cancer

More news from the American Chemical Society meeting.