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Space

India lost contact with its first lunar lander just before touchdown

Chandrayaan 2 mission officials are trying to figure out why its rover-carrying lander went silent moments before it was to reach the moon’s surface.

Humans

The longest Dead Sea Scroll sports a salt finish that the others lack

A newly discovered salty lamination on the Temple Scroll could help explain why the ancient manuscript’s parchment is remarkably bright.

Earth

How Kilauea’s lava fed a massive phytoplankton bloom

Kilauea’s heavy flow of lava into the ocean in 2018 added both food and heat to fuel a sudden bloom of ocean algae.