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  1. Animals

    Static electricity may help butterflies and moths gather pollen on the fly

    Electrostatically charged lepidopterans could draw pollen out of flowers without touching the blooms, computer simulations suggest.

    By Anna Gibbs
  2. Climate

    Earth’s jet stream helps create the seeds of clouds

    The newly discovered process for making aerosols might also be the most productive.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  3. Health & Medicine

    Stopping cachexia at its source could reverse wasting from cancer

    The immune protein interleukin-6 helps regulate body weight. Blocking it in the brain could restore appetite and muscle mass, a study in mice hints.

    By Kristel Tjandra
  4. Climate

    Earth keeps breaking global heat records

    How hot could it get? In the first edition of Science News’ Extreme Climate Update, we look at how high temperatures could soar.