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    Meet the Asteroids Next Door

    A radar system is set to map near-Earth objects as they fly by

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    How to Run Across Death Valley in the Summer

    Learning how to cope with heatwaves, from an ultrarunner

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    Looking for Life’s Source on Ceres

    The dwarf planet might have had a hot core and liquid oceans

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    Looking at Art on Psychedelics

    People took mushrooms, then studied famous paintings. Here’s what happened.

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    We’re All Connected

    Welcome to the Climates Issue

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    First Views of the Perseid Meteor Shower

    An early peep for this year’s peak

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    How to Count Butterflies

    6 projects to volunteer for community science to study butterfly populations

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    What a Massive Butterfly Count Reveals

    A tale of three decades and 4.3 million butterflies

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    The Beauty of Martian Rocks

    What scientists are learning from these dazzling samples

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    Our Windy Planet

    Watch this mesmerizing animation of winds blowing across the globe