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Health & Medicine

Protein links metabolism and circadian rhythms

Scientists have known for ages that metabolism is tied to the body’s daily rhythms. Two new studies suggest how.

Physics

Watching the northern lights form

Scientists may have solved the mystery of what triggers the events that spark the northern and southern lights.

Life

Choose your own splicer

Zinc-finger proteins can cut, splice or tweak a targeted gene, and a new “open source” method for making customized zinc-finger proteins aimed at specific genes will give scientists easier access to this powerful genetic tool.

Plants

Fugitives spread bumblebee diseases

Pathogens hitchhike on commercial bees that escape from greenhouses.