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Health & Medicine
Panel outlines research priorities for ‘Cancer Moonshot’
Recommendations for President Barack Obama’s Cancer Moonshot include improved data sharing, focus on immunotherapy and commitment to patient engagement.
By Laura Beil -
Neuroscience
Brain training can alter opinions of faces
Covert neural training could shift people’s opinions of faces.
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Life
Scientists watch as bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance
A giant petri dish exposes the evolutionary dynamics behind antibiotic resistance.
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Earth
Where the young hot Earth cached its gold
A simulation of the infant Earth provides a new view of how the iron-loving precious metals ended up buried deep in the planet’s core.
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Life
Fossils hint at India’s crucial role in primate evolution
Ancient fossils from coal mine in India offer clues to what the common ancestor of present-day primates might have looked like.
By Bruce Bower -
Genetics
Genetic surgery is closer to reality
A molecular scalpel called CRISPR/Cas9 has made gene editing possible.
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Astronomy
Proxima b deserves buzz, even if some didn’t notice
Editor in chief Eva Emerson discusses Earth's newest potentially habitable neighbor.
By Eva Emerson -
Health & Medicine
Readers contemplate aging research
Aging research, dino guts and Earth's quasisatellite in reader feedback.
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Oceans
Fish escapes from marine farms raise concerns about wildlife
Farmed salmon, sea bass and other fish frequently escape from sea cages into the ocean. Will these runaways harm native wildlife?
By Roberta Kwok -
Paleontology
Preteen tetrapods identified by bone scans
Roughly 360 million years ago, young tetrapods may have schooled together during prolonged years as juveniles in the water.
By Susan Milius -
Microbes
Microbial matter comes out of the dark
Undiscovered bacteria challenge what scientists know about microbial life.
By Laura Beil -
Planetary Science
Philae lander spotted on comet 67P
Missing since November 2014, the Philae comet lander has been found lurking in the shadows on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.