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  1. Climate

    A new map traces the sky’s water highways

    Atmospheric rivers bring heavy rain and floods, but if they don’t come around, it could mean drought. A new global map reveals little-known pathways.

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  2. Astronomy

    A quasar breaks the record for most distant supermassive black hole

    The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the early universe.

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  3. Neuroscience

    Whether lefty or righty, practice makes the difference

    Researchers looking for the origins of left-right dominance in the brain found no innately better motor skills on either side.

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  4. Planetary Science

    Meet the Milky Way’s puffiest planets

    Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as cotton candy.