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- Psychology
Sleeping babies learn in an eyeblink
To learn about spoken words and other sounds, 1-month-old babies sleep on it.
By Bruce Bower - Life
Life
The perils of insect enslavement, bats’ hairy flight and crustacean-inspired optics in this week’s news.
By Science News - Physics
You haven’t heard it all
An experimental sound cloak can acoustically conceal objects.
By Devin Powell - Space
Most distant quasar raises questions
Superbright object appeared surprisingly soon after the Big Bang, challenging some theories about how black holes arose.
By Nadia Drake - Life
Alzheimer’s plaques due to purging flaw
A gene controls the clearance of a protein that accumulates in the brains of people with the condition.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
When Jupiter aligns with Mars’ moon, plus a salty Saturnian moon and an eye-catching comet in this week’s news.
By Science News - Humans
Humans
Practice alone doesn’t make perfect, plus healing from genocide and a baby’s-eye view of failure in this week’s news.
By Science News - Earth
BPA makes male mice less macho
Studies show that exposures in the womb or during adolescence can erase masculine habits or reverse sexes' behavior.
By Janet Raloff - Animals
Lionfish no match for big groupers
Despite its invasive success, the lionfish can't withstand grouper appetites.
By Janet Raloff - Life
Tasmanian devil genomes offer some hope, few answers
While clues to combating the infectious cancer that's threatening the species remain elusive, the completion of two genetic blueprints reveals a low but stable genetic diversity.
- Humans
Bone may display oldest art in Americas
A mammoth engraved on a fossil may date from at least 13,000 year ago.
By Bruce Bower - Life
New gene therapy fixes mistakes
For the first time scientists have repaired a damaged gene in a living mouse.