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  1. Health & Medicine

    Are we ready for the deadly heat waves of the future?

    As heat waves become more common, cities try to respond.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Climate

    Seafloor map shows why Greenland’s glaciers melt at different rates

    A new high-res look at the seafloor shows how ledges and dips affects whether relatively warm ocean water reaches the ice.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  3. Physics

    How physicists will remember Stephen Hawking

    Researchers reflect on Stephen Hawking's contributions to the field and the cosmological puzzles he left behind.

    By Emily Conover
  4. Genetics

    Birds get their internal compass from this newly ID’d eye protein

    Birds can sense magnetic fields, thanks to internal compasses that likely rely on changes to proteins in the retina.