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  1. Planetary Science

    What will it take to go to Venus?

    Undeterred by funding woes, scientists are scraping together ideas to tackle heat, pressure and acidity challenges of landing on Venus.

    By Lisa Grossman
  2. Health & Medicine

    14 cattle eyeworms removed from Oregon woman’s eye

    Oregon woman has the first ever eye infection with the cattle eyeworm Thelazia gulosa.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  3. Physics

    5 ways the heaviest element on the periodic table is really bizarre

    Called oganesson, element 118 has some very strange properties, according to theoretical calculations by physicists.

    By Dan Garisto
  4. Plants

    Ancient ozone holes may have sterilized forests 252 million years ago

    Swaths of barren forest may have led to Earth’s greatest mass extinction.