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An article from Science News Jan 2021
Zinc-air batteries are typically single-use. A new design could change that
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Clearing land to feed a growing human population will threaten thousands of species
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The Milky Way’s central black hole may have turned nearby red giant stars blue
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Hayabusa2’s asteroid dirt may hold clues to the early solar system
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Two stones fuel debate over when America’s first settlers arrived
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Astronomers spotted colliding neutron stars that may have formed a magnetar
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Technology and natural hazards clash to create ‘natech’ disasters
An article from Science News Nov 2020
STEVE may be even less like typical auroras than scientists thought
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The Milky Way makes little galaxies bloom, then snuffs them out
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LIGO and Virgo’s gravitational wave tally more than quadrupled in six months
An article from Science News Oct 2020
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of an asteroid
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A spherical star cluster has surprisingly few heavy elements
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The asteroid Bennu’s brittle boulders may make grabbing a sample easier
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Neandertal babies had stocky chests like their parents
An article from Science News Sep 2020
EHT data show turbulence makes the glowing ring around M87’s black hole wobble
An article from Science News Sep 2020
Seven footprints may be the oldest evidence of humans on the Arabian Peninsula
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Neutrinos could reveal how fast radio bursts are launched
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Dark matter clumps in galaxy clusters bend light surprisingly well
An article from Science News Aug 2020
In a first, astronomers spotted a space rock turning into a comet
An article from Science News Aug 2020
Four types of flames join forces to make this eerie ‘blue whirl’
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‘Exotic’ lightning crackles across Jupiter’s cloud tops
An article from Science News Jul 2020
This is the first picture of a sunlike star with multiple exoplanets
An article from Science News Jul 2020
A giant underground motion sensor in Germany tracks Earth’s wobbles
An article from Science News Jul 2020
Agriculture and fossil fuels are driving record-high methane emissions
An article from Science News Jul 2020
South Americans may have traveled to Polynesia 800 years ago
An article from Science News Jun 2020
Colliding black holes may have created a surprising flare of light
An article from Science News Jun 2020
Smoke from Australian fires rose higher into the ozone layer than ever before
An article from Science News Jun 2020
Clues to the earliest known bow-and-arrow hunting outside Africa have been found
An article from Science News Jun 2020
Chicxulub collision put Earth’s crust in hot water for over a million years
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A gene variant partly explains why Peruvians are among the world’s shortest people
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Salty water might exist on Mars, but it’s probably too cold for life
An article from Science News May 2020
Planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbor life
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Why mammals like elephants and armadillos might get drunk easily
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Molecular jiggling may explain why some solids shrink when heated
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Gravitational waves have revealed the first unevenly sized black hole pair
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Two primate lineages crossed the Atlantic millions of years ago
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Quantum mechanics means some black hole orbits are impossible to predict
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Beets bleed red but a chemistry tweak can create a blue hue
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Lucy’s species heralded the rise of long childhoods in hominids
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Astronomers have found the edge of the Milky Way at last
An article from Science News Mar 2020
How Hurricane Maria’s heavy rains devastated Puerto Rico’s forests
An article from Science News Mar 2020
How slime mold helped scientists map out the cosmic web
An article from Science News Mar 2020
Even a weird hypernucleus confirms a fundamental symmetry of nature
An article from Science News Mar 2020
Australia’s wildfires have now been linked to climate change
An article from Science News Mar 2020
New fossils and artifacts show Homo erectus crafted a diverse toolkit
An article from Science News Mar 2020
Thirdhand smoke wafting off moviegoers hurts air quality in theaters
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Some West Africans may have genes from an ancient ‘ghost’ hominid
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An ancient galaxy grew massive — then oddly stopped making stars
An article from Science News Jan 2020
These are the most detailed images of the Sun ever taken
An article from Science News Jan 2020
Tiny meteorites suggest ancient Earth had a carbon dioxide–rich atmosphere
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Fed by human-caused erosion, many river deltas are growing
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A 2.2-billion-year-old crater is Earth’s oldest recorded meteorite impact
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Phosphorus, a key ingredient of life, has been found in a newborn star system
An article from Science News Jan 2020
Homo erectus arrived in Indonesia 300,000 years later than previously thought
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Climate change is bringing earlier springs, which may trigger drier summers
An article from Science News Dec 2019
Fingerprints of climate change are increasingly appearing in extreme weather
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Electric charges on dust grains may help explain how planets are born
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A carved rock found in Jordan may be the oldest known chess piece
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How two gamma-ray bursts created record-breaking high-energy photons
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Molecular jiggling may explain why some solids shrink when heated
An article from Science News Nov 2019
A toe bone hints that Neandertals used eagle talons as jewelry
An article from Science News Oct 2019
The solar system may have a new smallest dwarf planet: Hygiea
An article from Science News Oct 2019
Strontium is the first heavy element detected from a neutron star merger
An article from Science News Oct 2019
The development of the lithium-ion battery has won the chemistry Nobel Prize
An article from Science News Oct 2019
With 20 new moons, Saturn now has the most of any solar system planet
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A new image reveals the structure of the cosmic web
An article from Science News Sep 2019
Alcohol-producing bacteria could cause liver disease in some people
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Gravitational waves from a ringing black hole support the no-hair theorem
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Birds fed a common pesticide lost weight rapidly and had migration delays
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Einstein’s general relativity reveals new features of a pulsar
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Iron sulfide may be keeping Mercury’s core toasty and its magnetic field alive
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A 3.8 million-year-old skull reveals the face of Lucy’s possible ancestors
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Ocean acidification could weaken diatoms’ glass houses
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Giant, active galaxies from the early universe may have finally been found
An article from Science News Jul 2019
Planting trees could buy more time to fight climate change than thought
An article from Science News Jul 2019
Scientists still can’t agree on the universe’s expansion rate
An article from Science News Jun 2019
Astronomers may have spotted the ghost galaxy that hit the Milky Way long ago
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DNA reveals ancient Siberians who set the stage for the first Americans
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The accretion disk around our galaxy’s black hole has been spotted at last
An article from Science News May 2019
Apollo-era moonquakes reveal that the Moon may be tectonically active
An article from Science News May 2019
Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe’s gold
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Pandas’ share of protein calories from bamboo rivals wolves’ from meat
An article from Science News May 2019
A jawbone shows Denisovans lived on the Tibetan Plateau long before humans
An article from Science News Apr 2019
Skepticism grows over whether the first known exomoon exists
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Saturn’s moon Titan sports phantom hydrocarbon lakes
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Tiny microplastics travel far on the wind
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The first picture of a black hole opens a new era of astrophysics
An article from Science News Apr 2019
A new hominid species has been found in a Philippine cave, fossils suggest
An article from Science News Apr 2019
The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are back on
An article from Science News Mar 2019
Surprising astronomers, Bennu spits plumes of dust into space
An article from Science News Mar 2019
Hidden ancient neutrinos may shape the patterns of galaxies
An article from Science News Feb 2019
Supernovas show the universe expands at the same rate in all directions
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Why kids may be at risk from vinyl floors and fire-resistant couches
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Tooth plaque shows drinking milk goes back 3,000 years in Mongolia
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Why some Georgia O’Keeffe paintings have ‘art acne’
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A space rock collision may explain how this exoplanet was born
An article from Science News Jan 2019
The latest picture of Ultima Thule reveals a remarkably smooth face
An article from Science News Jan 2019
Prosecco production takes a toll on northeast Italy’s environment
An article from Science News Jan 2019
