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  1. Health & Medicine

    How a variation on Botox could be used to treat pain

    Drugs that incorporate modified botulinum toxin provide long-term pain relief, a study in mice finds.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Animals

    New ‘Poké Ball’ robot catches deep-sea critters without harming them

    A machine that gently catches and releases animals underwater could help researchers take a more detailed census of the deep sea.

    By Maria Temming
  3. Paleontology

    This amber nugget from Myanmar holds the first known baby snake fossil

    Amber preserves the delicate bone structure of a 99 million year old baby snake.

    By Laurel Hamers
  4. Astronomy

    Move over, Hubble. This sharp pic of Neptune was taken from Earth

    A new strategy at the Very Large Telescope lets astronomers take space telescope–quality pictures from the ground.