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  1. Animals

    AI eavesdropped on whale chatter. It may have helped find something new

    Some “clicks” made by sperm whales may actually be “clacks,” but marine biologists debate what, if anything, that means.

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  2. Animals

    This fly’s flesh-eating maggot is making a comeback. Here’s what to know 

    After a decades-long hiatus, new world screwworm populations have surged in Central America and Mexico — and are inching northward.

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  3. Archaeology

    Peru’s Serpent Mountain sheds its mysterious past

    No, aliens had nothing to do with a winding 1.5-kilometer-long path of holes. First used as a market, the Inca then repurposed it for tax collection.

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  4. Science & Society

    If another country tested nuclear weapons, here’s how we’d know

    President Trump has argued the U.S.