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FOR SUBSCRIBERSHow do microplastics cause harm inside our bodies? A new study offers an answer
Scientists have linked the particles to health risks but did not know how they were causing harm. A new study challenges long-held assumptions.
Dozens of California dams need repair as El Niño winter nears
The 40 riskiest dams — rated high or extremely high hazard — are located throughout the state, but they cluster near densely populated coastal cities. 
Fossil kept in drawer for a century sheds light on tiger-sized dinosaurs with massive claws
The partial skull of a meat-eating predator was discovered about a century ago and acquired by the Natural History Museum in London in 1924.
FOR SUBSCRIBERSOpenAI said it solved hundreds of math problems. The results are dividing mathematicians.
Mathematicians say there could be breakthroughs in the bunch — if verified. 
Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA’s Apollo program, dies at 90
Hamilton received many awards and accolades, including being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2016.
Four return to Earth after eight months in space
SpaceX brought the U.S., French and Russian flyers back with a splashdown in the Pacific off Los Angeles.
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Over 290,000 in Nepal face extreme flood risk as Himalayan ice melts, study finds
The research was started before the recent disaster that killed at least 1,455 people.
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai
The Nobel committee hailed the duo for discovering new ways of manipulating chemical reactions.
Record Pacific temps fuel a ‘super’ El Niño with grave global consequences
UNICEF said its analysis suggests hundreds of millions of children could be exposed to dangerous conditions as a result of the climate pattern.
Francis Halzen wins physics Nobel for South Pole high-energy neutrino discoveries
The Nobel Committee credited the Belgian-born physicist, 82, for his work capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dating to the 1980s.
FOR SUBSCRIBERS‘Things the average pilot avoids’: Why NASA has been sending planes into ‘fire clouds’
The mission, which began this summer, sent planes into pyrocumulonimbus clouds to study the unique thunderstorms.
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