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  1. Climate

    Rising temps may mean fewer passengers on airplane flights

    Global warming could force airplanes to carry a lighter load — and fewer passengers —on each flight.

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  2. Climate

    Rising temperatures may mean fewer passengers on airplane flights

    Global warming could force airplanes to carry a lighter load — and fewer passengers —on each flight.

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  3. Genetics

    CRISPR adds storing movies to its feats of molecular biology

    Video and images could be stored in living bacteria with a little help from the iconic gene editor, CRISPR.

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  4. Planetary Science

    Here are Juno’s first close-ups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

    The Juno spacecraft swooped just 9,000 kilometers above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot on July 10. Here are the first pictures.

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  5. Earth

    Delaware-sized iceberg breaks off Antarctic ice shelf

    An iceberg about the size of Delaware splintered from the Larsen C ice shelf in one of the largest calving events ever recorded.

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  6. Astronomy

    Teeny-weeny star vies for title of smallest known

    A Saturn-sized star is one of the smallest yet discovered.

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  7. Astronomy

    Teensy star vies for title of smallest known

    A Saturn-sized star is one of the smallest yet discovered.

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  8. Animals

    Whales feast when hatcheries release salmon

    Whales: “They’re 40 feet long and they’re feeding on fish that are the size of my finger.”

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  9. Astronomy

    The most distant star ever spotted is 9 billion light-years away

    A bright blue star sends its light from two-thirds of the way across the universe, thanks to a chance alignment with a galaxy cluster.

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  10. Astronomy

    Astronomers get glimpse of star 9 billion light-years away

    A bright blue star sends its light from two-thirds of the way across the universe, thanks to a chance alignment with a galaxy cluster.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    The fight against gonorrhea gets a potential new weapon: a vaccine

    A vaccine used in New Zealand to curb meningitis also appeared to drop gonorrhea infections, results that hint at a way to make a gonorrhea vaccine.

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  12. Neuroscience

    Just one night of poor sleep can boost Alzheimer’s proteins

    Deep sleep may prevent the buildup of Alzheimer’s proteins.

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