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Fossils

Meet the new dinos

Fossil finds reveal a tiny, meat-eating species and another with featherlike features.

Health & Medicine

Treating peanut allergy bit by bit

New study offers a little hope in reducing an allergy to peanuts, but don't try this at home.

Space

The most popular stars

Dwarf stars come in many colors, and aren't so small after all

Brain

Reading a mind’s memories

By looking at patterns on brain scans, scientists can "see" where a person has been.

Animals

Bringing fish back up to size

Changing the way we fish may help rescue a population's shrinking fish.

Animals

Pondering the puzzling platypus

Scientists are studying the mixed-up looking mammal for clues to animal ancestry.

Animals

Fish needs see-through head

Barreleye peers out at the world like a fighter pilot does through a windshield.

Space

Deep-space dancers

In a galaxy far, far away, black holes are spinning around each other.

Health & Medicine

The metal detector in your mouth

The taste of metal is sweet, spicy, bitter, delicious and perhaps other, mystery tastes.

Animals

Newly named fish crawls and hops

Crazy-colored, flat-faced fish does more than swim.

Environment

Getting the dirt on carbon

The circle of life continues thanks to the carbon cycle.

Space

Watching deep-space fireworks

An orbiting telescope records the universe’s most powerful explosions.