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The tale starts with an unidentified body found on the roadside. Hit by a car in the wee hours of the morning, investigators puzzled over where it had come from and how it had reached its asphalt resting place.

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A solar sneeze, a superhot planet, the death of a comet and more in this week's news Web edition : Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 Someone should teach the Sun some manners. When it sneezed on June 7, the sun blew an enormous glob of dark plasma into space - and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught it on tape.

Brain waves make a fast brake Drivers could stop cars just by thinking about it Web edition : Friday, July 29th, 2011 In a fast-moving car, the brain can hit the brakes faster than the foot.

Some soldiers serving in the Middle East who develop difficulty breathing - but whose chest X-rays show nothing out of the ordinary - have constrictive bronchiolitis, a kind of lung damage virtually unknown in young adults, a study shows.

Butterflies and magnetism

Striking changes are possible in IQ and neuroanatomy, study finds Web edition : Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 The roller-coaster teenage years can take IQs along for the ride. A person's IQ can nosedive and climb sky-high during adolescence, while corresponding brain regions wax and wane in bulk, researchers report online October 19 in Nature.

Berry sensitizes tongue's sweet sensors to acidic flavors Web edition : Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 Scientists have finally explained how a little red berry makes just about anything, from the sourest lemon to the bitterest beer, taste as sweet as honey.

Brain gene activity changes through life Studies track biochemical patterns from just after conception to old age Web edition : Friday, October 28th, 2011 Human brains all work pretty much the same and use roughly the same genes in the same way to build and maintain the infrastructure that makes people who they are, two new studies show.