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  1. Feeling Right from Wrong: Brain’s social emotions steer moral judgments

    A new study of people who suffered damage to a brain area involved in social sentiments supports the notion that emotional, intuitive reactions typically guide decisions about moral dilemmas.

    By Bruce Bower

  2. Not So Wimpy: Antimalarial mosquito has an edge in tests

    For the first time, mosquitoes engineered to resist malaria have shed their underbug image and outperformed regular mosquitoes in a lab test.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Planetary Science

    Solar-staring spacecraft shows its flare

    A new image of the sun's chromosphere, a layer sandwiched between the sun's visible surface and its outer atmosphere, shows a surprisingly complex structure of filaments of roiling gas that promises to shed new light on why the sun erupts.