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  1. Health & Medicine

    Skin cells emit slow electric pulses after injury

    The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Earth

    More details about the Myanmar earthquake are emerging

    A phenomenon called liquefaction, which causes the ground to slump like quicksand, led to significant damage after the Myanmar earthquake. The risk of aftershock remains high.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  3. Plants

    Watch live plant cells build their cell walls

    Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

    By McKenzie Prillaman
  4. Particle Physics

    Physicists have confirmed a new mismatch between matter and antimatter 

    Charge-parity violation is thought to explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe.