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Top stories: A push to build affordable electron microscopes, coronavirus is not a global emergency yet, and the voice of an ancient mummy

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The dead speak! Scientists re-create voice of 3000-year-old mummy

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A coating is sprayed on the interior of a can in a Sherwin-Williams facility

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Byung-Gil Lee, wearing thick gloves to protect him from frigid temperatures, prepares samples for cryo–electron microscopy.

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Vol 367, Issue 6476
24 January 2020

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United Kingdom breaks from EU farm subsidies

By Erik StokstadJan. 24, 2020
Campus attack and police violence alarm Indian academics

By Sanjay KumarJan. 24, 2020
Planetary turmoil unleashed during Solar System infancy

By Paul VoosenJan. 24, 2020
Florida center details fired scientists' links to China

By Jeffrey MervisJan. 24, 2020
NSF rolls out huge makeover of science statistics

By Jeffrey MervisJan. 24, 2020

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