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  1. Earth

    Death Valley hits 130° F, the hottest recorded temperature on Earth since 1931

    Amid a heat wave in the western United States, California’s Death Valley is back in the record books with the third hottest temperature ever recorded.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  2. Life

    How two new fungus species got named after the COVID-19 pandemic

    Tiny fuzz on a beetle and fake leopard spots on palms now have Latin names that will forever nod to the new coronavirus.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Astronomy

    Hubble watched a lunar eclipse to see Earth from an alien’s perspective

    Hubble observed sunlight filtering through Earth’s atmosphere during a lunar eclipse to see what a habitable exoplanet’s atmosphere might look like.