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  1. Health & Medicine

    Digital heart twins can guide a lifesaving procedure

    Heart replicas helped doctors spot good targets for ablation in 10 patients. Months later, all of them are free of sustained faulty rhythms.

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  2. Animals

    Secrets of the Bees zooms in on life in a hive

    A new documentary available on Disney+ and Hulu appeals to our sense of wonder to highlight why bees need saving.

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  3. Animals

    Watch the first video of a sperm whale birth captured by scientists

    In a sperm whale birth recorded in more intimate detail than ever before, local whales huddled around the mother and lifted the calf to the surface.

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  4. Physics

    These insects fly with their legs. Physics explains how

    Phantom crane flies change the angle of their splayed legs to increase or reduce drag, helping them navigate varying winds.

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  5. Space

    How realistic is Project Hail Mary?

    Ryan Gosling is on a mission to save the sun — and Earth — from star-killing microbes. Science News dissects the science behind the sci-fi movie.

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  6. Plants

    Check out 6 ways orchids use tricks to reproduce

    This spring, these six orchids will lure pollinators with mimicry, scent or other unusual strategies.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    ‘Smart underwear’ measures how often humans fart

    “Zen digesters” rarely fart. “Hydrogen hyperproducers” fart a lot. Scientists are investigating what is typical.

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  8. Physics

    Here’s why sneakers squeak on the basketball court

    Tiny, repeating detachments between sole and floor — thousands of times a second — create the distinctive squeak heard on the court, data show.

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  9. Life

    An African monkey ate a rope squirrel and came down with mpox

    Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty mangabeys in Côte d’Ivoire.

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