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  1. Physics

    Microwaved, hard-boiled eggs can explode. But the bang isn’t the worst part.

    Microwaved eggs can explode with a loud, but probably not ear-splitting, bang when pierced.

    By Laurel Hamers
  2. Health & Medicine

    What hospitals can do to help keep excess opioids out of communities

    Guidelines for prescribing opioids following a routine surgery prevented thousands of unnecessary pills from leaving the hospital, a new study finds.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  3. Paleontology

    This new dinosaur species was one odd duck

    Weird dino swimmer had flipperlike limbs and a swanlike neck.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  4. Physics

    How freezing a soap bubble turns it into a ‘snow globe’

    Frigid air makes soap bubbles shimmering orbs thanks to surface tension.