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  1. Animals

    With one island’s losses, the king penguin species shrinks by a third

    Once home to the largest known colony of king penguins, Île aux Cochons has lost most of its birds for unknown reason.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Earth

    Rare blue diamonds are born deep in Earth’s mantle

    Rare blue diamonds are among the deepest ever found, and hint at possible pathways for recycling of ocean crust in the mantle.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  3. Particle Physics

    In a first, physicists accelerate atoms in the Large Hadron Collider

    Ionized lead atoms took a spin around the world’s biggest particle accelerator.

    By Emily Conover
  4. Astronomy

    How the Parker probe was built to survive close encounters with the sun

    Scientists had to get creative in testing the technology for the Parker Solar Probe, using huge mirrors, dust tunnels and even reams of paper.