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  1. Animals

    Live fast, die young

    With a lifespan of just five months, the chameleon Furcifer labordi leads a briefer life than any other land-dwelling vertebrate.

    By Amy Maxmen
  2. Math

    Optimizing leafy networks

    Scientists reveal a mathematical principle underlying the arrangement of leaf veins in plant species.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  3. Health & Medicine

    Journey to the center of the brain

    New map of brain's anatomy reveals communication hub that corresponds to an area active when the mind wanders.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Psychology

    Woman knob twists

    People nonverbally impose a specific order on descriptions of witnessed events, a tendency that may influence the structure of new languages, a new study suggests.