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  1. Animals

    Cricket frogs belly flop their way across water

    Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.

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  2. Earth

    Ghostly white northern lights present new auroral mystery

    These mysterious whitish-gray glows in the northern lights might be cousins of the mauve light streak known as STEVE.

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  3. Astronomy

    A cosmic ‘Platypus’ might link two astronomical mysteries

    A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

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  4. Animals

    Fever’s link with a key kind of immunity is surprisingly ancient

    When sick, Nile tilapia seek warmer water. That behavioral fever triggers a specialized immune response, hinting the connection evolved long ago.

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  5. Earth

    Another danger looms after the LA fires: Devastating debris flows

    As wildfires burn the landscape, they prime slopes for debris flows: powerful torrents of rock, mud and water that sweep downhill with deadly momentum.

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  6. Animals

    Mole or marsupial? This subterranean critter with a backward pouch is both

    Genetic analyses have solved the riddle of where a marsupial mole fits on the tree of life: It’s a cousin to bilbies, bandicoots and Tasmanian devils.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Trump is withdrawing the U.S. from WHO. Here’s what that means 

    When Trump’s move to leave WHO takes effect in a year, it may gut funding for global public health and limit U.S. access to crucial data, experts warn.

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  8. Astronomy

    Galactic chaos at cosmic noon may have stunted Milky Way planet formation

    High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

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  9. Paleontology

    A mysteriously large pterosaur finally has an identity

    A Jurassic pterosaur fossil, known to paleontologists for over 160 years, isn’t a new species. It is an odd specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri.

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  10. Climate

    Unearthed ice may be the Arctic’s oldest buried glacier remnant

    Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

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  11. Animals

    In chimpanzees, peeing is contagious

    The first study of copycat urination in an animal documents how one chimpanzee peeing prompts others to follow suit. Now researchers are exploring why.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Cigarettes with less nicotine may help some smokers quit

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a rule to drastically reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products.

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