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  1. Neuroscience

    There’s no rest for the brain’s mapmakers

    Navigational grid cells stay on the job during sleep.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Health & Medicine

    In many places around the world, obesity in kids is on the rise

    The last 40 years saw a big leap in obesity among children, totaling an estimated 124 million boys and girls in 2016.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  3. Astronomy

    Oddball dwarf planet Haumea has a ring

    The dwarf planet Haumea is now the most distant ringed object spotted in the solar system.

    By Lisa Grossman
  4. Astronomy

    How to make the cosmic web give up the matter it’s hiding

    Half the ordinary matter in the universe is unaccounted for.