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  1. Planetary Science

    Why you shouldn’t use magnets when looking for meteorites

    A popular tool for identifying meteorites can overwrite records of magnetic fields stored within the space rocks.

    By Katherine Kornei
  2. Math

    How Pythagoras turned math into a tool for understanding reality

    Reality was made of numbers, Pythagoras said, and he employed numbers to explain the “harmony of the heavens.”

    By Tom Siegfried
  3. Astronomy

    The James Webb telescope revealed surprise asteroids in the Fomalhaut star system

    New images of Fomalhaut confirm that an alleged planet is probably just dust while also revealing a new asteroid belt and a “Great Dust Cloud.”

    By James R. Riordon
  4. Animals

    Pregnancy may hamper bats’ ability to ‘see’ in the dark

    Tiny Kuhl’s pipistrelle bats make fewer calls when pregnant, which may make it more difficult to hunt prey, lab tests hint.