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  1. Health & Medicine

    Some topics call for science reporting from many angles

    There’s heartbreak in this issue. Science News investigates different facets of the ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States.

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  2. Astronomy

    Nostalgic Voyager documentary relives first exploration of the solar system

    A new TV documentary is a tender tribute to Voyagers 1 and 2, which launched 40 years ago and were the first spacecraft to visit the outer solar system.

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  3. Animals

    Drowned wildebeests can feed a river ecosystem for years

    Only a small percentage of wildebeests drown as they cross the Mara River, but they provide resources for the river ecosystem for years after their deaths.

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  4. Climate

    Ocean acidification may hamper food web’s nitrogen-fixing heroes

    A new look at marine Trichodesmium microbes suggests trouble for nitrogen fixation in an acidifying ocean.

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  5. Earth

    General relativity has readers feeling upside down

    Readers respond to the June 25, 2016, issue of Science News with questions on Earth's age, moaning whales, plate tectonics and more.

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  6. Animals

    Narwhals are really, really good at echolocation

    Audio recordings from the Arctic suggest that narwhals take directional sonar to the extreme.

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  7. Animals

    Narwhals are really, really good at echolocation

    Audio recordings from the Arctic suggest that narwhals take directional sonar to the extreme.

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  8. Animals

    Don’t judge a whale’s gut microbiome by diet alone

    Evolutionary history and diet may both determine the microbes that live in a baleen whale's stomach, researchers report.

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  9. Science & Society

    Aging, hominid ears, whales and more reader feedback

    Readers offer their thoughts on how hominids heard, a biochemical switch for aging, one-way airflow in lungs and more from the October 31 issue.

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  10. Oceans

    First U.S. ocean monument named in the Atlantic

    A region of ocean off the coast of Cape Cod has become the first U.S. marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean, President Barack Obama announced.

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  11. Animals

    New movie asks viewers to care about whale hunters. Will they?

    A new movie tells the tale of sailors shipwrecked by a whale. But it’s hard to feel sorry for the people trying to kill the animal.

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  12. Animals

    Snot could be crucial to dolphin echolocation

    An acoustic model reveals that echolocation relies on mucus lined tissue lumps in the animal’s nasal passage.

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