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Scientists may learn how to deal with fungal disease by fighting a frog pandemic.

Blind people who can echolocate use their brain’s visual center to do so.

Scorpion and spider genes boost a fungi’s mosquito-killing ability.

New evidence that neonicotinoid pesticides are hurting bees.

Scientists are measuring the acoustic properties of the shockwaves produced as our feet strike the ground as we run, helping to explain why so many runners get injured.

Human muscle is adapted for endurance, rather than ape-like strength.

Ancient Roman concrete became stronger with exposure to seawater and time.

Researchers discover that cockatoos use sticks and seed pods to drum out rhythms on tree limbs.

Lab mice with human colon tissue could help researchers fight colon cancer.

Brief, self-affirming writing exercises can help minority students excel in school.

Research into how taste cells regenerate could help cancer patients and the elderly enjoy food again.

Building paint that harvests hydrogen from the air could provide abundant clean energy.

An exhaustive analysis of birds and their eggs may explain why eggs vary in shape.

Wireless charging of moving objects could let electric cars cut the cord.

Tomorrow’s space pioneers will be very different from the explorers of yesterday.