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Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

The Webb Telescope: Hubble on steroids

Marcia Rieke - The Conversation
Religious Judaic objects used for prayer - a shofar, tallis, and prayer book. (Getty Images)

Humility: It's good for your health

Matthew Rozsa
Originally classified as an asteroid, Oumuamua is an object estimated to be about 230 by 35 meters (800 ft x 100 ft) in size, travelling through our solar system. (Getty Images/Aunt_Spray)

A new quarrel over an "alien" asteroid

Nicole Karlis
Close-up of a stretched smile (Getty Images/Niels Busch)

How to spot a liar

Matthew Rozsa
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The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist's illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. It may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disk. ( NASA/M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble)

Scientists may know how to find Planet 9

Nicole Karlis
Golden doodle dog waiting in front of a closed door (Getty Images/Linda Raymond)

How to read your dog's mind

Kari Weil
Rope Tied To A Boat (Getty Images/Mike Bchel/EyeEm)

The tangled physics of knots

Margaux Lopez - Massive Science
Cannabis plant (Getty Images)

Clashes over cannabis, race and water

Theo Whitcomb - Undark
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A health worker prepares a dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 (Getty Images)

COVID may evolve, but get your shot!

Andrew Read - The Conversation
Syringe with vaccine | Giant cross (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Kjell Brynildsen/Veerapong Boonporn/EyeEm)

Why evangelicals refuse the vaccine

Nathaniel Manderson
A baby grey headed flying fox bat hangs with its mother on January 27, 2020 in Bomaderry, Australia. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Bats use baby talk

Ahana Aurora Fernandez - The Conversation
Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Mars' weird geology vexes Perseverance

Nicole Karlis
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Human Evolution Illustration (Getty Images/Man_Half-tube)

The evolution culture war quietly ends

Matthew Rozsa
Perseverance rover on Mars (NASA)

Mystery of the missing Mars rock solved

Nicole Karlis
In this photo illustration a box of Ivermectina medicine seen on display. Manufactured by Vitamedic in Brazil Ivermectin has attracted global controversy as a potential COVID treatment. The World Health Organisation has advised against widespread use of the drug as a treatment for Covid 19. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Don't buy the ivermectin hype

Nicole Karlis
This mosaic of Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

Humanity is ready to deflect asteroids

Nicole Karlis
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Embers fall around a photographer as the Creek Fire rapidly expands on September 8, 2020 near Shaver Lake, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

The climate apocalypse is already here

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
NASA's Perseverance (Mars 2020) stores rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars. (NASA/Getty Images)

Martian mystery of the missing rocks

Nicole Karlis
Barking Yorkshire Terrier (Getty Images/F.J. Jimenez)

Why are little dogs so annoying?

Matthew Rozsa
A student activist showing a placard stating 'Dalit Lives Matter' (Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Caste shadows India’s science institutes

Ankur Paliwal - Undark
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Female holding tablet in front of body to display coloured x-ray illustrations of a pregnancy (Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images)

Could science prolong female fertility?

Matthew Rozsa
(Shutterstock/YARUNIV Studio)

Congress takes steps against PFAS

Jena Brooker - Grist
The U.S. Army Engineers who are installing a portable nuclear power plant shown as they move the vaper condenser, a component of plant, into the power plant, circa 1960. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

The Army's nuclear power experiment

Paul Bierman - The Conversation
Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy using an instrument like an ice pick which he invented for the procedure. Inserting the instrument under the upper eyelid of the patient, Dr. Freeman cuts nerve connections in the front part of the brain. (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor)

Book review: When scientists break bad

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
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