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Health & Medicine

Epileptic seizures may scramble memories during sleep

Overnight seizures seemed to muddle memories in people with epilepsy.

Particle Physics

How a proton gets its spin is surprisingly complicated

Pinning down the source of protons’ spin is surprisingly hard to do.

Planetary Science

Ryugu is probably a chip off one of these two other asteroids

Japan’s Hayabusa2 team has narrowed down the asteroid Ryugu’s origins based on its color.

Paleontology

In a first, a fossilized egg is found preserved inside an ancient bird

Scientists have found the first known fossil of a bird that died with an unlaid egg inside its body.