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  1. Planetary Science

    Readers ponder Opportunity’s future, animal consciousness and more

    Readers had questions about NASA’s Opportunity rover, pollen shapes and more.

    By Science News Staff
  2. Health & Medicine

    How an obscure sexually transmitted parasite tangos with the immune system

    Scientists are working out how Trichomonas vaginalis, one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, causes problems in women and men.

    By Amber Dance
  3. Planetary Science

    Mercury has a massive solid inner core

    The distribution of Mercury’s mass and small stutters in the planet’s spin suggest it has a giant solid inner core.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  4. Archaeology

    Ancient sculptors made magnetic figures from rocks struck by lightning

    Carved ‘potbelly’ stone sculptures suggest people in what’s now Guatemala knew about magnetism more than 2,000 years ago.