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  1. Physics

    Clean coal for cars has a dirty side

    Getting liquid fuels from coal would likely increase carbon emissions, and certainly not reduce them.

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  2. Humans

    Elephants’ struggle with poaching lingers on

    Even as African elephants struggle to recover from decades-old poaching, the animals face new and renewed threats today.

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  3. Life

    A more fearsome saber-toothed cat

    Analyses of fossils reveal that a third, newly recognized type of saber-toothed cat — one that killed by biting large chunks of flesh from its victim instead of biting its neck and slashing the major blood vessels there —roamed the Americas about a million years ago.

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  4. Paleontology

    How pterosaurs took flight

    Extinct flying reptiles known as pterosaurs may have taken to the air with a technique akin to leapfrogging, new research suggests.