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  1. Life

    This bite won’t hurt a bit

    A team dissects the physics of a mosquito bite, working to find a way to design gentler needles.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  2. Paleontology

    Dino domination was in the cards, maybe

    A new study finds that early dinosaurs coexisted with and were outnumbered by a competing species. Dinosaurs eventually reigned supreme anyway, but perhaps not because they were better.

    By Ashley Yeager
  3. Space

    Blast from the past poses puzzle

    New observations suggest that the brilliant outburst of a hefty star that first wowed observers in the 1840s could be signs of a new, exotic type of stellar explosion.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Space

    Brightest gamma-ray burst

    A bit of luck helps astronomers detect the most luminous object ever recorded from Earth.