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    Monitor lizards’ huge burrow systems can shelter hundreds of small animals
    
    By Jake Buehler23 hours ago
  - Animals
    Some electric eels coordinate attacks to zap their prey
    
    By Jonathan LambertJanuary 14, 2021
  - Plants
    Rats with poisonous hairdos live surprisingly sociable private lives
    
    By Susan MiliusJanuary 12, 2021
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    The more contagious coronavirus variant may soon be the U.S.’s dominant strain
    
    By Erin Garcia de JesusJanuary 15, 2021
  - Health & Medicine
    Could delaying a second vaccine dose lead to more dangerous coronavirus strains?
    
    By Erin Garcia de JesusJanuary 14, 2021
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    One of the oldest known cave paintings has been found in Indonesia
    
    By Bruce BowerJanuary 13, 2021
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    ‘The New Climate War’ exposes tactics of climate change ‘inactivists’
    
    By Carolyn GramlingJanuary 15, 2021
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    2020 and 2016 tie for the hottest years on record
    
    By Carolyn GramlingJanuary 14, 2021
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    Marie Tharp’s groundbreaking maps brought the seafloor to the world
    
    By Betsy MasonJanuary 13, 2021
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    The first magnetar flare detected from another galaxy was tracked to its home
    
    By Lisa Grossman20 hours ago
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    The most ancient supermassive black hole is bafflingly big
    
    By Maria TemmingJanuary 18, 2021
  - Space
    The Parker Solar Probe will have company on its next pass by the sun
    
    By Lisa GrossmanJanuary 15, 2021
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- - Quantum Physics
    Drones could help create a quantum internet
    
    By Emily ConoverJanuary 14, 2021
  - Chemistry
    This weird chemical bond acts like a mash-up of hydrogen and covalent bonds
    
    By Emily ConoverJanuary 7, 2021
  - Astronomy
    Enormous X-ray bubbles balloon from the center of the Milky Way
    
    By Emily ConoverDecember 9, 2020
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