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  1. Plants

    Carnivorous plants eat faster with a fungal friend

    Insects stuck in sundew plants’ sticky secretions suffocate and die before being subjected to a medley of digestive enzymes.

    By Erin Garcia de Jesús
  2. Planetary Science

    NASA’s Europa mission is a homecoming for one planetary astronomer

    Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.

    By Lisa Grossman
  3. Animals

    At-home experiments shed light on cats’ liquid behavior

    Cats can flow like liquids through tall crevices, but they solidify a bit as they approach short crannies, new research shows.

    By Andrea Tamayo
  4. Neuroscience

    Your brain can perceive subtle odor changes in a single sniff

    The speed at which our brain can tell smells apart is on par with color perception, a new sniff device shows.