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  1. Paleontology

    The asteroid that may have killed the dinosaurs came from beyond Jupiter

    The Chicxulub crater, left behind by the impact, contains elemental traces that suggest the origins of the notorious projectile.

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  2. Environment

    More than 4 billion people may not have access to clean water

    The new estimate, based on data from 135 low- and middle-income countries, is more than double the World Health Organization’s official count.

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  3. Space

    Astronauts actually get stuck in space all the time

    Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams join more than a dozen astronauts who’ve been stranded in space by mechanics, weather or geopolitics since the 1970s.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Why mpox is a global health emergency — again

    The WHO made the declaration as a potentially more infectious version of the deadly virus has emerged and mpox cases are rapidly rising across Africa.