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06/21/2020 COVID-19 case clusters offer lessons and warnings for reopening As restaurants, offices and other businesses open, trends in where and how COVID-19 transmission is happening could help guide re-entry strategies. Read More Smoke from Australian fires rose higher into the ozone layer than ever before The catastrophic wildfires in Australia around New Year’s generated a massive smoke plume that still hasn’t dissipated in the stratosphere. Read More Black hole plasma jets are shaped like bell-bottoms Jets of high-energy particles change from slightly curved sides to flared cones as they shoot away from galaxies, just like flare-legged pants. Read More Machine learning helped demystify a California earthquake swarm Computer algorithms helped scientists find that circulating groundwater probably triggered a four-year-long series of tiny quakes in Southern California. Read More An unexpected result from a dark matter experiment may signal new particles An excess of events spotted in the XENON1T experiment could be signs of solar axions or weird, new properties of neutrinos, but not dark matter itself. Read More Science News is a nonprofit. We depend on our readers to support our journalism. You can help by subscribing for as little as $25. SUBSCRIBE NOW DNA from a 5,200-year-old Irish tomb hints at ancient royal incest Ruling families in Ireland may have organized a big tomb project, and inbred, more than 5,000 years ago, a new study suggests. Read More How to make a mouse smell a smell that doesn’t actually exist The ability to create a perception might lead to a deeper understanding of how the brain makes sense of the world. Read More Flat spots on Saturn’s moon Titan may be the floors of ancient lake beds Bright radio signals from Titan indicate the presence of ancient lake beds in its tropics, a new analysis finds. Read More COVID-19 lockdowns helped people get more, but not necessarily better, sleep Two studies report that people began sleeping more and more regularly after countries imposed stay-at-home orders to slow the coronavirus’ spread. Read More Barn owlets share food with their younger siblings in exchange for grooming Scientists weren’t sure why elder barn owlets would give away meals to their younger kin, a rare example of sibling cooperation in birds. Read More Privacy policy  |  Update Profile  | Manage Subscriptions  |   Unsubscribe This email was sent by: Society for Science & the Public 1719 N Street NW Washington, DC, 20036, US