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  1. Animals

    Defenseless moths do flying impressions of scary bees and wasps

    Faking that erratic bee flight or no-nonsense wasp zoom might save a moth’s life.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Synthetic opioids involved in more deaths than prescription opioids

    Winning a ghastly contest, synthetic opioids become most common drug involved in U.S. overdose deaths, bypassing prescription opioids in 2016.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  3. Archaeology

    How a backyard pendulum saw sliced into a Bronze Age mystery

    A saw no one has seen may have built Bronze Age Greek palaces.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Planetary Science

    Last year’s solar eclipse set off a wave in the upper atmosphere

    The August 2017 solar eclipse launched a wave in the upper atmosphere that was detected from Brazil after the eclipse ended.