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  1. Earth

    3 things to know about the deadly Myanmar earthquake

    The magnitude 7.7 earthquake was powerful, shallow and in a heavily populated region with vulnerable buildings.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  2. Genetics

    ‘Woolly mice’ were just a start. De-extinction still faces many hurdles

    Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

    By Jason Bittel
  3. Space

    ‘Star Wars’ holds clues to making speedier spacecraft in the real world

    Controlled fusion, solar sails or ion engines could someday help spaceships travel between star systems.

    By Aaron Tremper
  4. Quantum Physics

    Physicists are mostly unconvinced by Microsoft’s new topological quantum chip

    Majorana qubits could be error resistant.