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  1. Astronomy

    See a 3-D map of stellar nurseries based on data from the Gaia telescope

    The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.

    By McKenzie Prillaman
  2. Animals

    Meet the ‘grue jay,’ a rare hybrid songbird

    Despite millions of years of evolutionary separation and a geographical divide, a blue jay and green jay mated in Texas. This bird is the result.

    By Sarah Boden
  3. Anthropology

    An ancient Chinese skull might change how we see our human roots

    Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.