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  1. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    Antimatter in a bottle, superfluid swirls, ladybug poisons and more in this week's news.

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  2. Life

    Life

    Slacker fish, carnivorous pitfalls, a dinosaur gap and more in this week’s news.

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  3. Life

    Wasp has built-in Facebook

    An insect species with a tricky social life has a special facility for telling one bug's mug from another.

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  4. Life

    Lab-engineered organism fights malaria

    A new breed of poison-secreting fungi can kill parasites in a mosquito.

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  5. Life

    Life

    Flowery advertising, tempting toilets for shrews, bat beacons and more in this week’s news.

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  6. Life

    Life

    Romeo-and-Juliet leafhoppers, sleep-deprived honeybees, dragonfly aces and more in this week’s news.

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  7. Chemistry

    Plants and predators pick same poison

    Zygaena caterpillars and their herbaceous hosts independently evolved an identical recipe for cyanide.

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  8. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Ancient monster eruption found, plus balancing sea ice, Bt-resistant beetles and more in this week’s news.

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  9. Microbial mats may have given early animals breathing room

    Early animals survived poor marine conditions by inhaling oxygen from bacterial "mines" at the bottom of the ocean.

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  10. Science & Society

    A prescription for complexity: public health and climate change

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  11. Life

    When snowpack shrinks, elk can binge on aspen

    As winters warm in the Rockies, majestic grazers may be threatening iconic Western tree.

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  12. Earth

    Defying Depth

    How deep-sea creatures, and close relatives, survive tons of water weight.

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