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Chemistry

Secret signals

Animals respond to chemical messages they may not even realize they’re swapping

Math

Hitting streaks spread success

For baseball players who want to increase their batting success, a new study offers this tip: Get on a team with a slugger.

Tech

Strong and slimy

Scientists spin threads from snotlike secretions of hagfish.

Tech

Science for all

STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — makes careers blossom

Earth

Surprising hot springs

Scientists find shallow source of water for volcano’s hot springs.

Earth

Less ice, more seawater

Shrinking ice sheets contribute to rising sea levels, large-scale study confirms.

Math

Cool Jobs: Math as entertainment

At DreamWorks Animation (and previously at another company called Digital Domain) Nafees Bin Zafar creates software used to make the special effects in motion pictures — and sometimes cartoons — look as realistic as possible.

Planets

Ice on Mercury

MESSENGER spacecraft provides evidence for frozen water on planet closest to sun.

Environment

Trees on the edge

Serious drought is a threat to most trees, worldwide survey finds.