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Who Will We Be When This Is All Over? Dec 18, 2020

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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought incalculable suffering and trauma. But it also offers ways for people—and even societies—to change for the better.

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For the Second Time Ever, an Asteroid Sample Returns to Earth Dec 17, 2020

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The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu marks a major milestone this weekend with the return of pristine space rock.

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Another Victim of Global Warming: The Great British Bake Off Dec 16, 2020

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Increasing summer temperatures are proving a menace to butter, chocolates, and baked Alaska.

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Underground Brine Could Be a Source of Oxygen on Mars Dec 15, 2020

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A new study tests a device that can efficiently split the resource’s water into pure oxygen and hydrogen in Martian conditions.

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The Incredible Journey of the Electronic Plastic Bottle Dec 14, 2020

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Researchers loaded containers with trackers and released them in the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, giving new insight into how plastic pollution travels.

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Endangered Vancouver Island Marmots Are Making a Comeback Dec 11, 2020

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Canada’s most endangered mammal is back from the brink of extinction—and offers hope as an “ambassador” for the conservation of less adorable species.

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What's a Semi-Log Plot and How Can You Use It for Covid Data? Dec 10, 2020

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It is very useful for showing data that spans different orders of magnitude—like case numbers in South Korea compared to the numbers in the United States.

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Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction Just After the Big Bang Dec 09, 2020

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The newly measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process that forged the first atomic nuclei matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.

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Meet the Microbes Living on Da Vinci’s Iconic Sketches Dec 08, 2020

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Think you’ve got an interesting microbiome? Your body ain’t got nothing on what’s accumulated on Leonardo’s drawings over 500 years.

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This Squishy 3D-Printed Human Heart Feels Like the Real Thing Dec 07, 2020

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A clever technique allows scientists to scan a heart and reconstruct it in a soup of gelatin. It's like making jello, only way more useful for surgeons.

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