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After the Notre Dame fire, scientists get a glimpse of the cathedral's origins Jan 14 2020 6:00 AM Researchers will tackle the scientific questions behind rebuilding Notre Dame, and learn more about its history. READ MORE   This ancient stardust is the oldest ever to be examined in a lab Jan 13 2020 3:00 PM Tiny grains of stardust that formed long before our solar system are giving new insight into star formation in the Milky Way. READ MORE   The fastest-spinning object ever made could help spot quantum friction in a vacuum Jan 13 2020 11:00 AM Scientists have developed a torque sensor made with a nanoparticle that can spin more than 300 billion times a minute. READ MORE

Australian fires have incinerated the habitats of up to 100 threatened species Jan 13 2020 6:00 AM Hundreds of fires that are blazing across the continent's southeast have created an unprecedented ecological disaster, scientists say. READ MORE

How to restore the legendary acoustics of Notre Dame Jan 12 2020 6:00 AM Using heritage acoustics, researchers hope to help restore the sound of Paris's Notre Dame cathedral. READ MORE

Wildfires could flip parts of the Amazon from a carbon sponge to a source by 2050 Jan 10 2020 2:00 PM Climate change and deforestation could double the area burned by fire in the southern Amazon by 2050, flipping the forest from carbon sponge to source. READ MORE

More Recent Headlines What we know - and don't know - about a new virus causing pneumonia in China Jan 10 2020 12:54 PM A newfound coronavirus is behind a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia in central China. Experts urge vigilance but say there's no cause for panic. READ MORE   Dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin gets a new observatory named after her Jan 10 2020 8:00 AM A new effort to study the cosmos is named after Vera Rubin, an astronomer who searched out dark matter and battled sexism. READ MORE   A giant wave of gas lurks near our solar system Jan 10 2020 6:00 AM The Earth and sun are relatively near a newfound, wavy rope of star-forming gas, named the Radcliffe Wave. READ MORE   A 'bonanza' of new bird species was found on remote Indonesian islands Jan 09 2020 2:17 PM Bird discoveries typically come in a trickle. But in a remote corner of Southeast Asia, 10 newly described songbird species and subspecies were found. READ MORE   Homo erectus arrived in Indonesia 300,000 years later than previously thought Jan 09 2020 2:00 PM The extinct, humanlike hominid likely reached the island of Java by around 1.3 million years ago, a study finds. READ MORE   Here's how climate change may make Australia's wildfires more common Jan 09 2020 12:17 PM An El Niño-like ocean-atmosphere weather pattern called the Indian Ocean dipole helped fuel extremely dry conditions in Australia. READ MORE   Young stars have been found in an old part of our galaxy Jan 09 2020 6:00 AM A newly discovered star cluster in the Milky Way's halo seems to have been deposited there by gas torn off of two satellite galaxies. READ MORE   Global progress in combating child malnutrition masks problem spots Jan 08 2020 2:02 PM Low-resource countries are tackling serious childhood malnutrition, national-level statistics show, but a closer look highlights disparities. READ MORE   Ocean acidification may not make fish act weird after all Jan 08 2020 1:00 PM A new study casts doubt on the results of early work into the effects of ocean acidification on coral reef fish behavior. READ MORE   Electric scooter injuries rose 222 percent in 4 years in the U.S. Jan 08 2020 11:00 AM Hospital admissions from accidents related to e-scooters grew from 2014 to 2018. READ MORE

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