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Animals live in a world of sounds. Clever experiments are finally teasing out how human-made noise can cause dangerous distractions.
The comet lander Philae made history with its touchdown on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, but a series of small hiccups prevented the robot from recharging its batteries, giving it only about 57 hours to explore the alien world.
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