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  1. Microbes

    How warming is shifting microbial worlds

    Climate change is affecting microbes, and that has implications for all life on Earth.

    By Erin Garcia de Jesús
  2. Physics

    A static electricity mystery comes to the surface

    Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces

    By Emily Conover
  3. Earth

    To make a ‘Snowball Earth,’ sci-fi moves fast. Geology is far slower

    The Day After Tomorrow, Snowpiercer, Snowball Earth: Such end-of-days visions of a frozen Earth are fantastical … but can contain a snowflake of truth.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  4. Animals

    Sharks are ingesting drugs in the Bahamas

    Nearly one third of sharks studied near the Bahamas’ Eleuthera Island were found to have caffeine, painkillers and other drugs in their bloodstreams.