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  1. Health & Medicine

    Can you actually die of a broken heart?

    Death by heartbreak doesn't just happen in stories. In real life, severe stress can cause the sometimes-fatal takotsubo syndrome.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  2. Life

    This drawing is the oldest known sketch of an insect brain

    Found in a roughly 350-year-old manuscript by Dutch biologist Johannes Swammerdam, the scientific illustration shows the brain of a honeybee drone.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Animals

    Chatty bats are more likely to take risks

    Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiments suggest, which could play into social dynamics within a colony.

    By Richard Kemeny
  4. Climate

    Yes, you can blame climate change for the LA wildfires

    Weather data show how humankind’s burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, windy weather more likely, setting the stage for the Los Angeles wildfires.