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Quick Roundup Of Monthly Science Stories

DEC 04, 2018
A month’s worth of cool science stories summed up.
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Alistair Jennings
Quick Roundup Of Monthly Science Stories

Alistair Jennings sums up some of the most interesting science stories for the month.

References:

1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0707-9

2) https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/

3) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261832849X?via%3Dihub

4) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/11/19/1803470115

5) https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/11/1024842

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