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  1. Environment

    Plastics are showing up in the world’s most remote places, including Mount Everest

    From the snow on Mount Everest to the guts of critters in the Mariana Trench, tiny fragments called microplastics are almost everywhere.

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  2. Animals

    On a cool night in Malaysia, scientists track mysterious colugos across the treetops

    Our reporter tags along for nighttime observations of these elusive gliding mammals.

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  3. Astronomy

    Arecibo Observatory, an ‘icon of Puerto Rican science,’ will be demolished

    The telescope, known for cameos in moves like Contact and for fast radio burst observations, was feared to be on the verge of collapse.

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  4. Physics

    Supercooled water has been caught morphing between two forms

    A new experiment used ultrafast techniques to reveal high-density water transforming into low-density water at subfreezing temperatures.