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  1. Archaeology

    Ancient Arabian cymbals ring up Bronze Age musical connections

    Copper instruments discovered at a 4,000-year-old site in Oman echo ritual influences from South Asia.

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  2. Plants

    Some tropical trees act as lightning rods to fend off rivals

    Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

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  3. Planetary Science

    Check out some of the weird rocks that have turned up on Mars

    Some of the unusual rocks carry stories about water on Mars. One has hints of long-gone microbes. All tell of a dynamic, complex planet.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    How U.S. public health cuts could raise risks of infectious diseases

    Deep funding cuts and widespread layoffs impact everything from local public health outreach to global disease surveillance, making us more vulnerable, experts warn.

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  5. Earth

    The ozone layer shields life on Earth. We’ll soon lose a key way to monitor its health

    Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

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  6. Life

    Gila monsters may struggle to survive climate change

    The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    A shingles vaccine may also help reduce dementia risk

    Analysis of a Welsh program offering live-attenuated shingles vaccines to people born after a certain date showed a 20 percent relative drop in dementia risk.

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  8. Space

    Fermenting miso in orbit reveals how space can affect a food’s taste

    A miso test on the International Space Station shows fermenting food is not only possible in space, it adds nuttier notes to the Japanese condiment.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Skin cells emit slow electric pulses after injury

    The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

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  10. Earth

    More details about the Myanmar earthquake are emerging

    A phenomenon called liquefaction, which causes the ground to slump like quicksand, led to significant damage after the Myanmar earthquake. The risk of aftershock remains high.

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  11. Plants

    Watch live plant cells build their cell walls

    Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

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  12. Particle Physics

    Physicists have confirmed a new mismatch between matter and antimatter 

    Charge-parity violation is thought to explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe. Scientists just spotted it in a new place.

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