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Physics

A cloak in time

Physicists hide events in the laboratory for trillionths of a second.

Animals

Baboon bosses get stressed for success

In the wild, the most powerful males reign tensely.

Math

Varying efficacy of HIV drug cocktails explained

Steepness of slope in dose-response curve tips off researchers to importance of timing in virus’s life cycle.

Life

Oil spill didn’t hurt seagrass-dwelling juvenile fish

Long-term effects of early exposure to hydrocarbons remains unknown.

Life

Learnin’ lizards

Underrated reptiles figure out what to do when the old rules change.

Space

Atom & Cosmos

A Saturnian storm, an asteroid visit, a leaky Betelgeuse and more in this week's news.

Space

Astronomers probe matter in early universe

Smeared light from the dawn of time confirms ideas about a mysterious dark energy permeating the cosmos.

Space

Iapetus gets dusted

Saturn moon gets its yin-yang surface by plowing through a ring of dust.

Humans

Humans

Poorer families take bigger risks, plus untrustworthy mugs and adulterous wives in this week's news.

Earth

Simulation tracks ocean’s missing heat

Climate scientists suggest energy is buried deep undersea or released to space.

Chemistry

Molecules/Matter & Energy

Tibetan singing bowls, supersized Rubik's Cubes and sound-squeezing soda cans in this week's news

Earth

Earth & Environment

Mountaintop mining, plastic fish and the return of the right whale in this week's news