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NEOWISE: Rare image of a comet's sodium tail

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Climate intervention offers some crop benefits, but abruptly ending it may backfire

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GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insects

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Ridgecrest earthquakes could cause a San Andreas chain reaction

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Ancient Maya reservoirs contained toxic pollution

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Farmers' climate change conundrum: Low yields or revenue instability

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Burrowing crabs reshaping salt marshes

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Harmful microbes found on sewer pipe walls

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System's ability to boost laser precision at room temperature increases its usability

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How a memory game could help us understand brain injury

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Texas will soon face driest conditions of last 1,000 years

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Flood Bot: Scientists develop new flood warning sensors

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Future Texas hurricanes: Fast like Ike or slow like Harvey?

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Major group of flowering plants is evolving twice as quickly in temperate zones as in the tropics

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Biologists find 10 lineages of fish able to live in highly toxic streams

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Desert algae shed light on desiccation tolerance in green plants

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Materials scientists drill down to vulnerabilities in human tooth decay

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Knowledge of severe storm patterns may improve tornado warnings

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Complex geometric models made simple

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Warming reduces trees' ability to slow climate change

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New software tool to model the economic and environmental impacts of California drought

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Is teleportation possible? Yes, in the quantum world

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Geochemists solve mystery of Earth's vanishing crust

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Eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano linked to period of extreme cold in ancient Rome

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Carbon dioxide levels are rising across wide swaths of the Arctic Ocean's Canada Basin

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Dive into the sea: Summer research and education program in ocean sciences

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Species could hold a cure for melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer

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Scientists develop numerical capability of laser-driven X-ray imaging

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LIGO-Virgo finds mystery object in gap between neutron stars and black holes

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300-million-year-old fish resembles a sturgeon but took a different evolutionary path

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