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Brazil’s first homemade satellite will put an extra eye on dwindling Amazon forests

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Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before

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Chemists close in on greener way to make plastics

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Remains of oldest American dog bolster idea that first humans arrived along the coast

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Brazil’s first homemade satellite will put an extra eye on dwindling Amazon forests

By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 26, 2021
Kinky and absurd: The first AI-written play isn’t Shakespeare—but it has its moments

By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 26, 2021
Graves of nearly 600 cats and dogs in ancient Egypt may be world’s oldest pet cemetery

By David GrimmFeb. 26, 2021
New, more inclusive journal policies ease author name changes on published papers

By Katie LanginFeb. 25, 2021
Dutch research funding agency, paralyzed by ransomware attack, refuses to pay up

By Martin EnserinkFeb. 25, 2021
Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before

By Julia RosenFeb. 25, 2021
Hungry teen dinosaurs crowded out their competitors

By Gretchen VogelFeb. 25, 2021
Podcast: Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator

By Sarah Crespi, Julia RosenFeb. 25, 2021

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Science Magazine

Vol 371, Issue 6532
26 February 2021

In Brief

News at a glance

In Depth

Perseverance will explore history of ancient lake

By Paul VoosenFeb. 26, 2021
Hungry teen dinosaurs crowded out competitors

By Gretchen VogelFeb. 26, 2021
Rare cosmic neutrino traced to star-shredding black hole

By Daniel CleryFeb. 26, 2021
Hunt for renewable plastics clears a hurdle

By Robert F. ServiceFeb. 26, 2021
Vaccine trials ramp up in children and adolescents

By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelFeb. 26, 2021
New U.K. funding agency aims to tackle innovative research

By Cathleen O'GradyFeb. 26, 2021

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By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 25, 2021
Male lyrebirds mimic mobbing flocks when having sex

By Tess JoosseFeb. 25, 2021
How fairy circles form in Shanghai’s salt marshes

By Meagan CantwellFeb. 23, 2021
Martian rover sends back ‘overwhelming’ video, audio from the Red Planet

By Catherine MatacicFeb. 22, 2021
Perseverance’s ‘sky crane’ captures Mars descent

By Paul VoosenFeb. 19, 2021
Watch—and hear—the impact human noises have on marine life

By Joel GoldbergFeb. 9, 2021

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Brazil’s first homemade satellite will put an extra eye on dwindling Amazon forests

By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 26, 2021
New, more inclusive journal policies ease author name changes on published papers

By Katie LanginFeb. 25, 2021
Dutch research funding agency, paralyzed by ransomware attack, refuses to pay up

By Martin EnserinkFeb. 25, 2021
Journals singled out for favoritism

By Cathleen O’GradyFeb. 25, 2021
As trials ramp up, doctors stress need to vaccinate kids against COVID-19

By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelFeb. 23, 2021

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This ancient Egyptian pharaoh met a gruesome end, scans reveal

By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 23, 2021
Astronomers spy promising blob around our nearest neighbor star, but is it a planet?

By Daniel CleryFeb. 11, 2021
It is not a flower. It is a fungus!

By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 4, 2021
Watch blue whales try to dodge ships in Patagonia

By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 3, 2021
In biblical times, purple was the new black

By Sofia MoutinhoJan. 29, 2021

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