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This week’s top Science news
Here’s what Earth might look like to aliens
Astronomers reverse engineer Earth images to understand data from exoplanets
Scientists may have spotted a black hole and a neutron star colliding
Strong signal from gravitational wave detectors hints at long-sought exotic source
‘Mystery’ volcano that cooled the ancient world traced to El Salvador
The 539 C.E. eruption triggered crop failure, famine, and disease
One million ways to sex a chicken egg, and how plastic finds its way to Arctic ice
On this week’s show: Researchers bring in MRI, artificial intelligence, and CRISPR to figure out the sex of unhatched chickens, and microplastic finds a route to the far north
Carbon atoms marry to form first-ever ring
Cyclocarbon could lead to new materials for electronics and nanodevices
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