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  1. Fungi could be used to create buildings, furniture and more on Mars. How would we grow them without oxygen and a food source? Scientists have the answer.

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  3. Super geomagnetic storms pose a threat, but humanity has time to prepare.

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  4. In the 1980s, leader of the Medellin drug cartel Pablo Escobar smuggled 4 hippos into Colombia for his personal zoo. Today, they're still wreaking havoc.

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  5. A Costa Rican scientist is helping to explore how a tiny fly in the middle of the jungle can hear the love songs that male frogs produce for females. The flies then find the frogs and feed on their blood.

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  6. Do you really need a face mask for the coronavirus outbreak? Find out which types of masks work, and which don't.

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  7. Only 6.7 percent of the Great Lakes were covered by ice on January 30, which is a remarkable statistic for the middle of winter.

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  8. The giant squid's genome may lead to more questions than answers.

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  9. Mammoth Biosciences just raised $45 million in Series B funding for their Crispr diagnostics, and they already have several partnerships in the works.

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  11. The coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan, China has sickened at least 7,800 people in at least 18 countries around the world – but we shouldn’t name it after Wuhan.

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  12. Fungi could be used to create buildings, furniture and more on Mars. How would we grow them without oxygen and a food source? Scientists have the answer.

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  13. Seismologist Stephen Malone recently spent several years restoring and digitizing tapes of the seismic activity around Mount St. Helens in the months leading up to the volcano’s catastrophic 1980 eruption.

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  14. About 150 shark fossils from 15 to 20 different species have been found in a cave system in Kentucky, USA.

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  15. The choice of font affects how people respond to written text, and new studies show how some typefaces elicit emotional responses in election campaigns or poetry.

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  16. A pivot towards incorporating new and different data types holds promise for better weather prediction—something everyone should agree on.

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  17. The NSF's new, cutting-edge solar observatory shows us the Sun as never before. Here's why we need to know.

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  18. In early 1958, the space race – the Cold War competition between the U. S. and the Soviet Union over space exploration milestones – had just started, and the U. S. was already losing.

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  19. Super geomagnetic storms pose a threat, but humanity has time to prepare.

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  20. Only 6.7 percent of the Great Lakes were covered by ice on January 30, which is a remarkable statistic for the middle of winter.

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