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  1. Climate

    Climate change is shifting when Europe’s rivers flood

    Data spanning 50 years shows that today, floods come days, weeks, even months earlier in some areas and later in others.

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  2. Genetics

    The first look at how archaea package their DNA reveals they’re a lot like us

    Archaea microbes spool their DNA much like plants and animals do.

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  3. Genetics

    Gene editing creates virus-free piglets

    Pigs engineered to lack infectious viruses may one day produce transplant organs.

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  4. Materials Science

    50 years ago, steel got stronger and stretchier

    Today, scientists are still trying to improve steel.

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  5. Planetary Science

    Moon had a magnetic field for at least a billion years longer than thought

    The moon’s magnetic field could have lasted until about a billion years ago.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    More U.S. adults are drinking, and more heavily

    Heavy drinking and alcohol use disorders have risen in the United States, at a cost to society’s health.

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  7. Anthropology

    Infant ape’s tiny skull could have a big impact on ape evolution

    Fossil comes from a lineage that had ties to the ancestor of modern apes and humans, researchers argue.

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  8. Animals

    A lot of life on planet Earth is awful and incredible

    Acting Editor in Chief Elizabeth Quill discusses how the natural world feeds our sense of wonder.

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  9. Animals

    Readers fascinated by critters’ strange biology

    Readers responded to fish lips, monkey brains, sunless tanner and more.

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  10. Animals

    Ticks are here to stay. But scientists are finding ways to outsmart them

    Researchers acknowledge that there’s no getting rid of ticks, so they are developing ways to make them less dangerous.

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  11. Animals

    Fossil find suggests this ancient reptile lurked on land, not in the water

    An exquisitely preserved fossil shows that an ancient armored reptile called Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi wasn’t aquatic, as scientists had suspected.

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  12. Psychology

    A look at Rwanda’s genocide helps explain why ordinary people kill their neighbors

    New research on the 1994 Rwanda genocide overturns assumptions about why people participate in genocide. A sense of duty, not blind obedience, drives many perpetrators.

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