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Unprecedented drought in an artificial ecosystem may reveal how rainforests will cope with climate change

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Statistically speaking, 2019 Nobel Prize lineup of 11 men and one woman was bound to happen

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3000-year-old toolkit suggests skilled warriors crossed Europe to fight an epic battle

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Science Magazine

Vol 366, Issue 6462
11 October 2019

In Brief

News at a glance

In Depth

Topic choice works against black NIH applicants

By Jeffrey MervisOct. 11, 2019
Science organizations speak out in defense of Uyghur academics

By Catherine MatacicOct. 11, 2019
Nobel honors pioneers in cosmology and exoplanets

By Adrian Cho, Daniel CleryOct. 11, 2019
Cellular oxygen sensor system earns Nobel for trio

By Kai KupferschmidtOct. 11, 2019
Bronze Age inequality and family life revealed in powerful study

By Ann GibbonsOct. 11, 2019
Telescope seeks clues to exoplanet interiors

By Daniel CleryOct. 11, 2019

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Greenland's dying ice

By Paul VoosenOct. 11, 2019
Seeing fossils in a new light

By Gretchen VogelOct. 11, 2019

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Drone captures video of melting Greenland glacier

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Salty soil is no problem for these tomatoes, thanks to some microbial helpers

By Elizabeth PennisiOct. 8, 2019
What makes people happy when skies are gray? The color yellow

By Eva FrederickOct. 4, 2019
Astronomers spot the filaments of gas that feed the galaxies

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Statistically speaking, 2019 Nobel Prize lineup of 11 men and one woman was bound to happen

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Prestigious journal pulls paper about chemical attack in Syria after backlash

By Kai KupferschmidtOct. 14, 2019
Economics Nobel honors trio taking an experimental approach to fighting poverty

By Adrian ChoOct. 14, 2019
An ambitious effort to map the human body’s individual cells gets backing from NIH

By Elizabeth PennisiOct. 11, 2019
In bid to boost transparency, bioRxiv begins posting peer reviews next to preprints

By Jeffrey BrainardOct. 10, 2019

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