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Earth

Here’s how climate change may make Australia’s wildfires more common

An El Niño–like ocean-atmosphere weather pattern called the Indian Ocean dipole helped fuel extremely dry conditions in Australia.

Space

Young stars have been found in an old part of our galaxy

A newly discovered star cluster in the Milky Way’s halo seems to have been deposited there by gas torn off of two satellite galaxies.

Health & Medicine

Global progress in combating child malnutrition masks problem spots

Low-resource countries are tackling serious childhood malnutrition, national-level statistics show, but a closer look highlights disparities.

Life

Ocean acidification may not make fish act weird after all

A new study casts doubt on the results of early work into the effects of ocean acidification on coral reef fish behavior.