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Even planets have their (size) limits

Natalie Hinkel - The Conversation
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How food fraud is hidden in plain sight

John G. Keogh - The Conversation
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Big Oil wants to muddy up Texas waters

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
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Animal exports in the Victorian era

Harriet Ritvo - The Conversation
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This computer graphic image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows two drum-shaped and solar-powered Minerva-II-1 rovers on an asteroid. Japanese unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 released two small Minerva-II-1 rovers on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (JAXA via AP)

Sending robot "skins" to space

Shi En Kim - Massive Science
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Psychology skews western. Can we fix it?

Michael Schulson - Undark
People wearing facemasks to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, wait at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on January 24, 2020. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty)

The deadly disease lurking near you

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
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Why being online makes you cynical

Keith A. Spencer
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The biology of coffee, explained

Thomas Merritt - The Conversation
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When exercise comes to ICU

Amitha Kalaichandran - Undark
This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)

200 years of exploring Antarctica

Dan Morgan - The Conversation
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Iceland's appetite for whale meat fades

Joe Roman - The Conversation
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Scientific misconduct is on the rise

Bhavya Singh - Massive Science
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Florida's forecast: falling iguanas

Frank Mazzotti - The Conversation
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Republicans re-open energy market

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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Dopamine fasting: Silicon's latest fad

A. Trevor Sutton - The Conversation
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Tracking the Florida panther’s comeback

Rachel Love Nuwer - Undark
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Trump takes aim at Medicaid

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Veterans, refugees: vulnerable to PTSD

Arash Javanbakht - The Conversation
A non-permeable cover tops Coal Ash Basin B along the banks of the Elizabeth River in Chesapeake, Va., Monday, June 27, 2016. A lawsuit has gone to a judge over environmentalists claim that there are leaks of arsenic and other heavy metals into a river near Dominion�s abandoned Chesapeake power plant from the coal Ash pits in violation of the Clean Water Act. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) (AP)

Plan to protect Chesapeake is failing

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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Rupert Murdoch (AP/Dennis Van Tine)

Climate change: Rift in the Murdochs

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Tourists wear face masks as they prepare to board their tour bus outside the New Orient Landmark hotel in Macau on January 22, 2020, after the former Portuguese colony reported its first case of the new SARS-like virus that originated from Wuhan in China. (ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

The mystery of the Wuhan coronavirus

Nicole Karlis
US President Donald Trump (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Is Trump's healthcare action working?

Shefali Luthra
A walking Epaulette Shark (Hemiscyllium freycineti) crawls across the seafloor in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. While this shark isn't the newly discovered species, it is one of the nine separate but closely related species of shark that can all walk. (Getty Images/Ethan Daniels/Stocktrek Images)

Sharks are learning to walk

Nicole Karlis
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