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Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer: Rafi joined Live Science in 2017. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of journalism. You can find his past science reporting at Inverse, Business Insider and Popular Science, and his past photojournalism on the Flash90 wire service and in the pages of The Courier Post of southern New Jersey.

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We Could Spray Cheap Chemicals in the Air to Slow Climate Change. Should We?

November 28, 2018 | Article

A new paper reveals that it would cost less to slow climate change than it would to fix New York City's subway system.
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Why NASA's Mars InSight Landing Zone Is a Big Weird Oval

November 26, 2018 | Article

It has everything to do with the tricky, daunting way the probe will punch through to the surface.
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Ugh, When These Stars Die They're Probably Gonna Get Sand Everywhere

November 20, 2018 | Article

A new study reveals the origin of silica, and how a bunch of old supernovas got it all over everything.
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This Spinning, Snakelike Star System Might Blast Gamma Rays into the Milky Way When It Dies

November 19, 2018 | Article

Astronomers found a star system in our galaxy that could produce a gamma-ray burst — one of the brightest and most energetic events in the universe.
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Scientists Finally Know How Wombat Butts Make Cube-Shaped Poops

November 19, 2018 | Article

These marsupials have especially talented poop-cubing butts. And a team of physicists figured out how they work.
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There's Something Hot Hidden Under East Antarctica

November 19, 2018 | Article

Scientists aren't sure precisely what it is.
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European Researchers Baked Fake Moon Dust into Money and Screws

November 16, 2018 | Article

Why did the European Space Agency create a whole bunch of fake moon dust and use it to 3D print small screws, gears and even a fake coin?
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Do Not Fear the Dark Matter Hurricane (The Dark Matter Hurricane Is Good)

November 14, 2018 | Article

Scientists think there's a 'dark matter hurricane' coming, but it's definitely not going to kill you. It's actually kind of exciting.
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Schrödinger's Bacteria? Physics Experiment Leads to 1st Entanglement of Living Organisms

November 14, 2018 | Article

A paper published in 2017 appeared to show a limited quantum effect in bacteria. Now scientists argue that something much weirder happened.
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Satellite Images Reveal North Korea's Missile Program Is Very Much Alive

November 13, 2018 | Article

North Korea's missile program has not actually been dismantled, according to a report published this weekend.
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