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- Health & Medicine
Hot clock key to fruit fly’s global spread
A temperature-sensitive switch in a fruit fly’s biological clock means some species can survive in a wide range of climates while others are stuck on the equator.
- Space
Lopsided universe demands different explanation
Cosmologists analyzing an apparent asymmetry in the pattern of radiation reveal evidence for a new type of field in the early universe.
- Health & Medicine
Sense for morphine has gender gap
Female rats have fewer brain receptors that sense morphine, making the drug less effective. The work points to the need for more research on why medicine potency can vary among people.
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- Health & Medicine
Experimental drug fends off emphysema in mice
Mice exposed to cigarette smoke and then ed the drug and fended of emphysema, suggesting the edible drug might help ex-smokers.
- Life
Buzzing bees protect plant leaves
Honeybee air traffic can interrupt caterpillars' relentless munching.
- Earth
Warmer oceans would fuel more thunderstorms
Satellite data reveal more thunderheads forming as tropical sea-surface temperatures rise.
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Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek
Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek
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Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
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Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes
Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes
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Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett
Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett
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Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble
Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble
