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Materials Science

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A boy in India pours water over his head.

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Space missions spanned the solar system in 2024

Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

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Here’s how long it would take 100 worms to eat the plastic in one face mask

A small reddish-orange wolf stretches its neck to lick nectar from the bottom of a cone-shaped flower. The wolf is standing in a field of the flowers.

Ethiopian wolves are the first large carnivores found to slurp nectar

The former Conger ice shelf is shown as a white mass on Earth's face from space.

An unexpected ice collapse hints at worrying changes on the Antarctic coast

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Electronic ‘tattoos’ offer an alternative to electrodes for brain monitoring

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