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  1. Animals

    Big slimy lips are the secret to this fish’s coral diet

    A new imaging study reveals how tubelip wrasses manage to munch on stinging corals.

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  2. Astronomy

    Scalding hot gas giant breaks heat records

    KELT 9b’s sun blasts it with so much radiation that the planet’s dayside is hotter than most stars and its atmosphere is being stripped away.

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  3. Life

    When it comes to the flu, the nose has a long memory

    Mice noses have specialty immune cells with long memories.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    When preventing HIV, bacteria in the vagina matter

    Vaginal bacteria affect how well microbicide gels used to prevent HIV work.

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  5. Neuroscience

    Brains encode faces piece by piece

    Cells in monkey brains build up faces by coding for different characteristics.

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  6. Physics

    LIGO snags another set of gravitational waves

    Two black holes stirred up the third set of gravitational waves ever detected.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    50 years ago, antibiotic resistance alarms went unheeded

    Scientists have worried about antibiotic resistance for decades.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Some topics call for science reporting from many angles

    There’s heartbreak in this issue. Science News investigates different facets of the ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States.

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  9. Particle Physics

    Readers puzzled by proton’s properties

    Readers sent feedback on under-ice greenhouses in the Arctic, the Martian atmosphere and more.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    For babies exposed to opioids in the womb, parents may be the best medicine

    A surge in opioid-exposed newborns has U.S. doctors revamping treatments and focusing on families.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Researchers stumble onto a new role for breast cancer drug

    At first, ophthalmologist Xu Wang thought her experiment had failed. But instead, she revealed a new role for the breast cancer drug tamoxifen — protection from eye injury.

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  12. Archaeology

    Peru’s plenty brought ancient human migration to a crawl

    Ancient Americans reached Peru 15,000 years ago and stayed put, excavations suggest.

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