The Abstract
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The Abstract
A 5,500-Year-Old Forest in Yellowstone Melted Out of the Ice
We begin 2025 with Amazonian garden cities, lost woods in the Rockies, battitude, and robot hoopers.
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The Year in Abstracts: Obese Genomes and Banana Galaxies
We’re eating Suns and chillin’ in Moon caves for the last Abstract of 2024.
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Disney Princesses Are at Risk of Rabies and Fatal Maulings
This week, the creature from the Pangean lagoon, casket shopping for Disney princesses, a horror show in ancient Somerset, and “Martifacts.”
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The Data on Civilization-Ending Superflares
Don’t panic…yet. Also: A baby galaxy with a bedazzled name, tiny poops with big potential, and an ancient ritual compound in a secret cave chamber.
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An Alternate Theory for How Life-Giving Water Came to Earth
Come along for a tale of mammoth meals, Venusian deserts, orbital splash parks, and slingshot-wielding spiders.
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The Rise of the Dinosaurs, Written in Poop
This week, we explore the digestive products of dinosaurs, the sartorial skills of prehistoric peoples, the superpowers of a supreme squirter, and the effects of “repeated social defeat” in fish.
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An Ancient Crystal from the Sahara Reveals a Lost World of Martian Water
This week, we’ll travel to ancient Mars, indulge in record-breaking “nanopasta,” check out nature’s version of fiber optic cables, and behold a galactic jellyfish.
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We’ve Got Uranus All Wrong
An anomalous encounter with Uranus, a lost world preserved in Antarctic amber, ChatGPT at the poetry slam, and an exceptional nudibranch.
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This Black Hole Is Eating So Much Matter that It Defies Known Science
May I present: a hungry singularity, movie brains, Pompeii bling, and elephant showers.
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Is There Life on Europa?
This week, we travel to the Fava Flow Suburbs, some dusty Martian ice, moonlit tropical forests, and a colony of mole-rats.
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The Future of Earth Hinges on Sea Snot
Plus, time-traveling finches, a breakdancer booboo, man-eating lions, and comb jelly fusion.
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Apocalyptic Asteroid Impact Was Great for Ants
Ants farm as Earth burns, back on the Sun beat, and a spirit animal for introverts.