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  1. Genetics

    The Amazon molly — a sex-skipping fish — hacks evolution

    The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

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  2. Astronomy

    A strange ‘chirp’ in a brilliant stellar blast points to a magnetar

    Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

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  3. Animals

    Submerged bumblebee queens breathe underwater

    Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the bees survive floods.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    ‘Smart underwear’ measures how often humans fart

    “Zen digesters” rarely fart.