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- Life
Giant honeybees do the wave
Giant bees coordinate and make waves that would rival those in any football stadium. Predators of the bees don’t find it cheering.
- Life
Female frogs play the field
A female frog insures a safe home for her young by mating with many males.
- Neuroscience
Highly wired
Men’s brain tissue shows higher density of neuron connections than similar tissue from women.
- Humans
Inborn path to math
A new study links math achievement with individual differences in the ability to rapidly estimate quantities.
- Space
Rosetta finds a rocky jewel
On September 5, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission became the first spacecraft to take a close-up portrait of a rare type of asteroid that lies in the main belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
- Life
Birds duet to fight and seek
The first study to track birds in the forest via microphone arrays shows that birds double up on fight songs, or play Marco Polo in tropical shrubbery.
- Earth
Don’t blame the cities
Urban sprawl is sometimes blamed for skewing weather data and creating a false signal of global warming, but a new study suggests this idea is just a lot of hot air.
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- Physics
The proton’s strange new cousin
Physicists have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, including two strange quarks. Its existence further validates the standard model of particle physics.
- Space
Black holes have limits
A review of current evidence suggests an upper limit to a black hole's size.
- Life
Gene regulation makes the human
The regulation of genes, rather than genes alone, may have been crucial to primate evolution.
- Space
PAMELA may have spotted the dark stuff
An orbiting observatory may have discovered particles of dark matter -- the proposed, invisible material that researchers believe holds the universe together.
