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Planetary Science

Nitrogen fizz fuels ‘magic island’ on Titan, simulation suggests

Nitrogen bubbles may be the source of the “magic island” on Saturn’s moon Titan.

Physics

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the proton

Researchers are puzzling over the proton's radius, spin and whether it decays.

Paleontology

Early dinosaur relative sported odd mix of bird, crocodile-like traits

Teleocrater rhadinus gives researchers a better picture of what early dinosaur relatives looked like.

Earth

‘River piracy’ on a high glacier lets one waterway rob another

The melting of one of Canada’s largest glaciers has rerouted meltwater from one stream into another in an instance of river piracy.