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  1. Life

    Hornets suffocate in bee ball

    Researchers find a spike in carbon dioxide, along with an increase in heat, makes honeybees' enemies vulnerable.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  2. Life

    Climate change shrinks sheep

    Milder winters help small, weak lambs survive but more competition for food slows growth.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Earth

    New cyclone predictor

    Researchers link occasional sea-surface warming in central Pacific with more, stronger hurricanes in North Atlantic.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Life

    New drug hits leukemia early

    An experimental drug may stop a deadly leukemia in its early stages, a study of mice shows.

    By Nathan Seppa

  5. Five problems in physics without the definite article

    In a 2006 book that garnered much press for its silly attacks on string theory, author and physicist Lee Smolin provides a list of “The Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics.”