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Archaeology

Iron Age secrets exhumed from riches-filled crypt

Wealthy woman’s 2,600-year-old grave highlights Central Europe’s early Iron Age links to Mediterranean societies.

Neuroscience

If chewing sounds irk you, blame your brain

People who find chewing and slurping sounds annoying have structural differences in their brains.

Health & Medicine

E-cigarette smoking linked to heart disease risk

Two indicators of heart disease risk were elevated for users of e-cigarettes in small-scale study.

Astronomy

Five gamma-ray blazars set new distance record

Intensely bright galaxies are the farthest blazars ever detected in gamma rays.

Animals

Dragonfish opens wide with flex neck joint

New study reveals anatomical secrets of mysterious deep ocean fish.

Tech

Bat robot takes wing

Unlike other aerial robots that use whirling rotor blades to fly, the Bat Bot relies on soft, silicone-based wings to glide, swoop and turn.

Planetary Science

Red Planet’s interior may not churn much

The magma fueling a Martian volcanic system remained largely unchanged for billions of years, analysis of a newfound meteorite suggests.

Physics

Physicists seek neutron lifetime’s secret

Updated experiments hope to resolve neutron lifetime discrepancy.

Animals

What gives frog tongues the gift of grab

Here’s what puts the grip in a frog’s high-speed strike: quick-change saliva and a tongue softer than a marshmallow.

Chemistry

LSD’s grip on brain protein could explain drug’s long-lasting effects

The newly discovered structure of a human serotonin receptor linked to LSD could reveal why the drug’s hallucinogenic effects last so long.

Earth

3-billion-year-old crystals hint at lost continent’s fate

Zircon crystals from a long-gone continent called Mauritia may have resurfaced during volcanic eruptions on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

Life

Map of Zika virus reveals how it shifts as it matures

A cryo-electron microscopy map of immature Zika virus offers a never-before-seen glimpse of remodeling of the virus’s protein and RNA core.