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Memory and other mental functions can’t simply be reduced to one part of the brain.
Bennu Phoenix / Alamy; The Atlantic A Major Climate Idea Is Based on Some Shaky Science
At least for now, we can’t just trap carbon in the soil.
Urban Zintel / laif / Redux Blue Animals Are Different From All the Rest
Some of the colors we see on creatures such as blue jays and poison-dart frogs aren’t created by pigments at all.
Wulong Tommy / Quanta Magazine Two Arctic Fish Are Breaking the Rules of Genetics
“I’m still very much puzzled about how this is possible."
All Canada Photos / Alamy Stock Photo Earth’s Underground Worlds May Run on Radioactive Decay
No sunlight, no problem.
Samantha Mash / Quanta Magazine A Portal to Mars on the Tip of Iceland
A volcano erupting on the island is a living replica of what once happened on Mars.
The Arctic Has a Cloud Problem
Tiny iodine particles are clumping together to trap sunlight and melt polar sea ice.
Christian Vorhofer/ imageBROKER / Alamy A New Era of Black Holes Is Here
Astronomers have discovered a black-hole treasure trove that is changing our view of the cosmos.
MARK GARLICK / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / GETTY Mars Doesn’t Look So Dead After All
New discoveries have raised the possibility that the planet’s volcanoes, long assumed dormant, may still be active.
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