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  1. Ecosystems

    How mammoths competed with other animals and lost

    Mammoths, mastodons and other ancient elephants were wiped out at the end of the last ice age by climate change and spear-wielding humans.

    By Alexandra Witze
  2. Animals

    Climate change may have made the Arctic deadlier for baby shorebirds

    What were once relatively safe havens in the Arctic are now feasting sites for predators of baby birds.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Astronomy

    One of Earth’s shimmering dust clouds has been spotted at last

    Almost 60 years after a Polish astronomer spotted clouds of dust orbiting Earth near the moon, astronomers have detected those clouds again.

    By Lisa Grossman
  4. Quantum Physics

    Physicists wrangled electrons into a quantum fractal

    The tiny, repeating structure could reveal weird behavior of electrons in fractional dimensions.