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  1. Plants

    Underground Hijinks: Thieving plants hack into biggest fungal network

    For the first time, plants have been caught tapping into the most widespread of soil fungi networks and using it to steal food from green plants.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Materials Science

    Bigger, Cheaper, Safer Batteries: New material charges up lithium-ion battery work

    A new material could make rechargeable lithium-ion batteries smaller, cheaper, and safer.

    By Jessica Gorman
  3. Health & Medicine

    New Drugs Beat Old Flu: Antiviral agents counter deadly 1918 influenza

    After partially recreating a deadly influenza virus that swept the globe from 1918 to 1919 and killed millions of people, researchers have shown that available flu drugs could probably prevent a new pandemic of the 1918 influenza strain or a similar flu.