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  1. Climate

    Resilience protects corals from hurricanes — and climate change

    Coral reefs have evolved to be resilient in the face of hurricanes that can devastate human populations. But climate change is reducing the ability of reefs to bounce back from disaster.

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  2. Paleontology

    Flightless dino-bird wore full-body feathers

    Recently unearthed Archaeopteryx fossil sports full coat of feathers, suggesting feather evolution was more complex than previously thought.

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  3. Planetary Science

    Rosetta may have spotted comet’s primordial ingredients

    Photos taken by the Rosetta spacecraft may show pristine material that formed the solar system’s comets, asteroids and planets roughly 4.6 billion years ago.

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  4. Astronomy

    Top 10 messages to send to E.T.

    Fears that sending signals to alien civilizations would provoke an invasion shouldn't prevent transmitting important messages.

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  5. Paleontology

    Fleshy comb is first found on a dinosaur

    A fossil head has both a duck bill and a soft-tissue crest, scientists suggest.

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  6. Paleontology

    Dinosaur dreams dashed

    Fans of 'Jurassic Park' may be disappointed (or possibly relieved) to learn that you can’t get ancient DNA from amber.

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  7. Paleontology

    Fragments of long-bodied dino found in Argentina

    Named Leinkupal laticauda, the new species dino probably lived into the early Cretaceous period, which began roughly 145 million years ago.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Brain reconstruction hints at dinosaur communication

    T. rex and other dinos might have understood complex vocal calls.

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  9. Paleontology

    Fossils push back origins of modern mammals

    Fossils of three newly identified early mammals from China suggest that the common ancestor of today’s mammals lived over 200 million years ago.

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  10. Science & Society

    The amateur who helped Einstein see the light

    With help from Science News Letter, eccentric amateur Rudi Mandl persuaded Einstein to explore the phenomenon of gravitational lensing.

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  11. Psychology

    Feedback

    Readers way in on slacktivism, cockroaches, dinosaur tracks and more.

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  12. Paleontology

    New dinosaur species joins ranks of giant carnivores

    The newly named Siats meekerorum probably roamed what is now Utah about 98 million years ago terrorizing the ancestors of T. rex.

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