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  1. Planetary Science

    A giant planet may orbit our closest sunlike neighbor

    Alpha Centauri A, four light-years from Earth, may host a gas giant. If confirmed, no Earthlike planets orbit in the star’s habitable zone.

    By McKenzie Prillaman
  2. Archaeology

    This ancient Siberian ice mummy had a talented tattooist

    Researchers reconstructed a roughly 2,000-year-old woman’s tattoos, from prowling tigers to a fantastical griffinlike creature.

    By Celina Zhao
  3. Archaeology

    7 stone tools might rewrite the timeline of hominid migration in Indonesia 

    Excavated implements suggest a Homo species arrived on Sulawesi over 1 million years ago, before a nearby island hosted hobbit ancestors.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Plants

    A newly discovered gene helped this moss defy gravity

    A gene called IBSH1 helped spreading earthmoss thrive at high gravity, hinting at how plants adapted to photosynthesize on land.