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Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
Antimatter in a bottle, superfluid swirls, ladybug poisons and more in this week's news.
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Life
Life
Slacker fish, carnivorous pitfalls, a dinosaur gap and more in this week’s news.
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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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Life
Lab-engineered organism fights malaria
A new breed of poison-secreting fungi can kill parasites in a mosquito.
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Life
Life
Flowery advertising, tempting toilets for shrews, bat beacons and more in this week’s news.
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Life
Life
Romeo-and-Juliet leafhoppers, sleep-deprived honeybees, dragonfly aces and more in this week’s news.
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Chemistry
Plants and predators pick same poison
Zygaena caterpillars and their herbaceous hosts independently evolved an identical recipe for cyanide.
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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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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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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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Earth
Defying Depth
How deep-sea creatures, and close relatives, survive tons of water weight.
By Susan Gaidos