Life
- Animals
Threatened coral get fishy rescue
When toxic seaweed gets too close to this coral, gobies fight and bite back.
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- Climate
The high life
The sky is full of microscopic life, some of which might even trigger rain or snow.
- Fossils
Shoulder bones fuel debate
Fossil shoulder blades suggest an ancient humanlike species may have been at home in the trees as well as on the ground.
- Fossils
A fishy mammal ID
For more than a century, the fossilized skull of an ancient fish was misidentified as a primate.
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- Health & Medicine
Magnets that kill cancer cells
Researchers devise a way to use magnets to make cells self-destruct.
- Health & Medicine
Of fish and brain health
Moms-to-be who eat a diet rich in the right fish may pass along benefits to their children
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- Brain
The teenage brain
Adolescence triggers brain — and behavioral — changes that few kids or adults understand.
- Microbes
Bacteria learn new trick
Scientists show evolution in action in decades-long E. coli study.
- Microbes
Living long beneath the sea
Microbes in the mud beneath the seafloor may live millions of years, redefining what it means to be old and alive.
