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  1. Astronomy

    Astronomers can’t figure out why some black holes got so big so fast

    Early supermassive black holes are challenging astronomers’ ideas about how the behemoths grew so quickly.

    By Lisa Grossman
  2. Artificial Intelligence

    AI bests humans at mapping the moon

    AI does a more thorough job of counting craters than humans.

    By Maria Temming
  3. Anthropology

    Ancient climate shifts may have sparked human ingenuity and networking

    Stone tools signal rise of social networking by 320,000 years ago in East Africa, researchers argue.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Physics

    STEVE the aurora makes its debut in mauve

    A newly discovered type of aurora is a visible version of usually invisible charged particles drifting in the upper atmosphere.