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  1. Life

    Diving spiders make their own gills

    Eurasian diving bell spiders, the only truly aquatic arachnids, survive underwater with the help of “physical gills,” scientists say.

    By Daniel Strain
  2. Chemistry

    Water-air interface barely there

    The transition between gas and liquid is an extremely insubstantial affair.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  3. Life

    Heart has cellular regeneration ability

    In mice, injecting a protein spurs the organ’s own stem cells to regrow small amounts of tissue after damage.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Tech

    Social Networks

    Power networks in Congress, Twitter’s crystal ball and iPhone contagion in news from an MIT workshop on information in social media.