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  1. Animals

    Here’s how spiders that go overboard use light to find land

    When elongate stilt spiders fall into water, they head for areas that don’t reflect light in the hope of finding dry land, experiments suggest.

    By Madeline Reinsel
  2. Earth

    Speed bumps under Thwaites Glacier could help slow its flow to the sea

    A seismic survey of Thwaites’ icy underbelly shows the Antarctica glacier may be snagging on tall rises in land. That could help slow global sea level rise.

    By Nikk Ogasa
  3. Science & Society

    History buffs will dig these 5 science stories from 2023

    This year, new science threw the lives (and deaths) of Beethoven and other historical figures into sharp relief.