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  1. Science & Society

    Explainer: What is a patent?

    Patents protect intellectual property from theft

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Health & Medicine

    Deadly new virus emerges

    A mysterious infection has been spreading for almost a year.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Health & Medicine

    The AIDS virus that vanished

    Strong medicine may have rid a newborn of deadly HIV.

    By Stephen Ornes
  4. Brain

    Brain to brain

    Rats brains signaled each other through computers.

    By Stephen Ornes
  5. Agriculture

    Cool Jobs: Green Science

    In parts of the Arctic, entire forests are creeping northward. Luckily, ecologist Serge Payette is hot on their trail.

    By Sharon Oosthoek

  6. Teacher’s Questions for Cool Jobs: Green Science

    By Science News Explores

  7. Teens win big for their research

    2013 Intel Science Talent Search awards teens for science projects.

    By Stephen Ornes
  8. Animals

    Flower power

    Electric field around flowers may help bees find nutritious blooms.

    By Stephen Ornes
  9. Environment

    Bad for breathing

    New study connects pollution to several common diseases that affect the lungs and airways.

    By Stephen Ornes

  10. Teacher’s Questions for Whale of a Lesson

    By Science News Explores
  11. Animals

    Whale of a lesson

    Once given up as all but extinct, the North Atlantic right whale is making a comeback.

    By Eric Wagner
  12. Science & Society

    Delilah’s legacy

    Scientist reroutes shipping lanes in the Bay of Fundy.

    By Eric Wagner