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Earth

Oh, rats — there go the snails

A food fad among introduced rats has apparently crashed a once-thriving population of Hawaii’s famed endemic tree snails.

Animals

Oops, missed that fossil iridescence

Nanostructures on a preserved feather offer the first fossil evidence of bird colors not from pigments, a new study says.

Earth

A trip to the garbage patch

Scientists bring back samples from the oceanic garbage patch off the coast of California.

Humans

New genes give gut bacteria antibiotic resistance

Scientists find new genes for antibiotic resistance in common bacteria in the human gut.