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Physics

Scientists explain mystery of triangular snowflakes

A snowflake's fall helps determine its shape.

Tech

Letting molecules do the work

Why go to the trouble of carefully building electric circuits when the circuits can build themselves?

Health & Medicine

The (kids’) eyes have it

A visual trick opens a window on brain development.

Environment

Deck the halls with DCA

A plastic ornament was caught giving off poisonous vapors.

Space

Moon crash, splash

NASA scientists smash a rocket into the moon and discover water vapor and ice in a lunar crater.

Plants

Flower family knows its roots

Impatiens wildflowers seem to know who's sharing their soil.

Fossils

The paleontologist and the three dinosaurs

Skulls thought to be from three different dinosaurs may actually be from the same dino type at three different ages.

Health & Medicine

New twists for phantom limbs

An experiment explores the connections between brain and body.

Animals

Giving sharks safe homes

Scientists help to understand and protect sharks and coral reefs.

Planets

One ring around them all

Introducing the solar system's largest known ring around a planet.

Fossils

The bug that may have killed a dinosaur

The holes in the jaw bone of a world-famous T. Rex suggest the dino died from a parasite infection.

Health & Medicine

Junk food junkies

Rats on a junk food diet behave like drug addicts.