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  1. Astronomy

    Five things we learned from last year’s Great American Eclipse

    A year after the total solar eclipse of 2017, scientists are still pondering the mysteries of the sun.

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  2. Anthropology

    A fossil mistaken for a bat may shake up lemurs’ evolutionary history

    On Madagascar, a type of lemur called aye-ayes may have a singular evolutionary history.

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  3. Particle Physics

    Ghostly antineutrinos could help ferret out nuclear tests

    Antineutrino detectors could one day help reveal stealthy nuclear blasts.

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  4. Astronomy

    A galaxy 11.3 billion light-years away appears filled with dark matter

    The “Cosmic Seagull,” a distant galaxy magnified by a gravitational lens, seems chock-full of dark matter, in contrast with other galaxies almost as far away.