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- Humans
No nuts for you, Nutcracker Man
Tooth analysis shows huge-jawed hominid grazed on grasses and sedges.
By Bruce Bower - Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
Groovy snake bites, buzzy microphones and coiling liquids in this week’s news.
By Science News - Earth
Earth/Environment
How Antarctica got its ice, plus Chinese dust-ups and rising bird malaria in this week’s news.
By Science News - Earth
Grand Canyon born by continental lift
A "drip" deep within the Earth may have raised the Colorado plateau to create the spectacular landscape of the U.S. Southwest.
- Life
Genes & Cells
A boost for tired antibiotics, plus a fishy mom’s mucus and high-gravity microbes in this week’s news.
By Science News - Earth
With warming, Arctic is losing ground
Scientists anticipate big ecosystem changes as erosion spills nutrients into the sea
By Janet Raloff - Space
Former planet may have grown a tail
Pluto appears to trail a cometlike cloud of gas.
By Ron Cowen - Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
A genetic cause for small brains, heart links to HIV and calcium, and more in this week’s news.
By Science News - Life
Zap! More fish
An upgraded brain underlies the wide diversity in a family of electric fish, scientists say.
- Earth
Currents reach deep for seafloor larvae
Surface waters circulate more than a mile down, transporting organisms between distant ocean-bottom habitats.
By Devin Powell - Tech
Nanotubes coming to a screen near you
New technology promises brighter, bigger display screens that use less energy.
- Life
Antarctic humpbacks make a krill killing
Late-arriving sea ice enhances crustacean feast for whales, but the bounty may be fleeting.
By Susan Milius