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The Marvelous Microbiome Of Shipwrecks

Off North Carolina’s coast, a World War II wreck is teaming with microbial life.

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October 16, 2020

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Andrea Ghez on her decades of peering at the center of our galaxy—and the supermassive black hole she found there. Plus, a WWII shipwreck teaming with microbial life. And the SciFri Book Club tackles chicanafuturism.

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They Burned All Their Ships

In Alberto Yanez’s short story ‘Burn the Ships,’ the Aztec people of Mexico reanimate the dead to fight their conquerors.

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