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  1. Brain

    Explainer: How our body deals with stress

    Our autonomic nervous system balances two natural responses. If stressed or overwhelmed, simple techniques can help to restore that balance.

    By Jennifer Junghans
  2. Science & Society

    Does your natural history museum need a makeover?

    A lot of their old-fashioned dioramas — a type of exhibit — are biased, boring or even unscientific. Here’s what modern museums are doing to fix that.

    By Amber Dance
  3. Tech

    A robotic hand helps piano players’ fingers move faster

    Robotic devices like this might someday help musicians, gamers, athletes or even surgeons improve their dexterity.

    By Kathryn Hulick
  4. Physics

    Let’s learn about static electricity

    The effects of static electricity are all around us — from lightning strikes to clothes clinging together out of the drier. But scientists still don’t fully understand this phenomenon.

    By Maria Temming
  5. Animals

    A changing Arctic current seems to be impacting bowhead whales

    A teen researcher investigated bowhead whales and found their migrations may be responding to a changing sea current.

    By Maria Temming
  6. Animals

    Scientists Say: Caecilian

    Some of these amphibians can produce a milk-like liquid for their offspring and give birth to live young. And those aren't the only rules these rebels break.

    By Katie Grace Carpenter
  7. Planets

    Pluto and its moon Charon may have paired up with a kiss

    After about 30 hours of contact, Charon could have separated from Pluto and drifted into its current orbit.

    By Lisa Grossman
  8. Brain

    Having sparse links in the hippocampus may maximize memory storage

    Tissue from the memory centers of people’s brains reveal relatively few links among nerve cells in the hippocampus. But they carried strong, reliable signals.

    By McKenzie Prillaman
  9. Science & Society

    Viewing math as a language might help it make sense to more of us

    It might also reduce the anxiety associated with using math, allowing people to better answer a host of important everyday questions.

    By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran
  10. Earth

    This long-buried glacier ice is at least 770,000 years old

    Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed this glacier remnant that could be more than a million years old.

    By Nikk Ogasa
  11. Animals

    Tiger beetles weaponize sound to ward off bat predators

    Some beetles make ultrasonic clicks that camouflage them as toxic tiger moths, warning hungry bats to stay away.

    By Maria Temming and JoAnna Wendel
  12. Planets

    A distant crumbling planet spills its guts

    Based on the light being emitted by its shed minerals, astronomers can for the first time determine the internal composition of an exoplanet.

    By Lisa Grossman
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