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    The diabolical ironclad beetle can survive getting run over by a car. Here’s how
    
    By Maria TemmingOctober 21, 2020
  - Animals
    Naked mole-rats invade neighboring colonies and steal babies
    
    By Jake BuehlerOctober 20, 2020
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    Fire ants build little syphons out of sand to feed without drowning
    
    By Aayushi PratapOctober 20, 2020
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    Homo erectus, not humans, may have invented the barbed bone point
    
    By Bruce Bower3 hours ago
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    How environmental changes may have helped make ancient humans more adaptable
    
    By Bruce Bower20 hours ago
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    We still don’t know what COVID-19 immunity means or how long it lasts
    
    By Erin Garcia de JesusOctober 19, 2020
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    Even the deepest, coldest parts of the ocean are getting warmer
    
    By Maria TemmingOctober 20, 2020
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    How planting 70 million eelgrass seeds led to an ecosystem’s rapid recovery
    
    By Joseph PolidoroOctober 14, 2020
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    50 years ago, scientists were looking for ways to predict earthquakes
    
    By Maria TemmingOctober 9, 2020
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    NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of an asteroid
    
    By Lisa Grossman24 hours ago
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    Turning space images into music makes astronomy more accessible
    
    By Maria TemmingOctober 16, 2020
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    A spherical star cluster has surprisingly few heavy elements
    
    By Lisa GrossmanOctober 15, 2020
Physics
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    The diabolical ironclad beetle can survive getting run over by a car. Here’s how
    
    By Maria TemmingOctober 21, 2020
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    The first room-temperature superconductor has finally been found
    
    By Emily ConoverOctober 14, 2020
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    Fundamental constants place a new speed limit on sound
    
    By Emily ConoverOctober 9, 2020
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