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  1. Physics

    The secret to perfect espresso? It’s physics

    Inspired by gas and liquid flow in earth science, researchers brewed an equation to calculate the speed of water percolation through ground coffee.

    By Taylor Mitchell Brown
  2. Animals

    Giant, kraken-like octopuses may have ruled the Cretaceous deep

    Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest invertebrates ever.

    By Jake Buehler
  3. Astronomy

    Clouds of water ice thread stellar nurseries in the Milky Way

    NASA’s SPHEREx mapped water ice across vast regions of the galaxy, confirming that an essential molecule for life on Earth abounds in space.

    By Nikk Ogasa
  4. Plants

    Some plants can feed on dust that lands on their leaves

    A new study offers evidence from natural shrubland that leaves, not just roots, can take up nutrients from deposited dust.