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  1. Life

    Giant honeybees do the wave

    Giant bees coordinate and make waves that would rival those in any football stadium. Predators of the bees don’t find it cheering.

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  2. Life

    Female frogs play the field

    A female frog insures a safe home for her young by mating with many males.

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  3. Neuroscience

    Highly wired

    Men’s brain tissue shows higher density of neuron connections than similar tissue from women.

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  4. Humans

    Inborn path to math

    A new study links math achievement with individual differences in the ability to rapidly estimate quantities.

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  5. Space

    Rosetta finds a rocky jewel

    On September 5, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission became the first spacecraft to take a close-up portrait of a rare type of asteroid that lies in the main belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.