What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of August 24, 2021

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Tue, 24 Aug 2021
Study takes unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth

Researchers have retraced the lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth

An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the Alaska landscape during its 28 years to almost circle the Earth twice.

Scientists gathered unprecedented details of its life through

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Tue, 24 Aug 2021
Wildfire smoke may lead to less rain in the western US

Particles from wildfires make small cloud droplets that are less likely to fall as rain

As wildfires and heat waves stress the western United States, concern over drought is rising: Dry landscapes burn more readily, and rain can help quell fires already raging. But wildfire smoke may keep that essential rain from falling.

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