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Dance of the rings

One of Saturn’s outer rings is surrounded by a spiral of powder-sized particles, according to the Cassini spacecraft. The spiral curls around and into the planet’s F ring. “We’ve never seen anything like this before,” says Carolyn Porco, an imaging team member who described the research on Monday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences in Cambridge, UK.

Black-and-white dinner

Ancient humans dined on giant pandas. Evidence from seven Chinese fossil sites suggests that pandas formed part of the human diet approximately 600,000 years ago, says Cai Huiyang, from Guizhou Provincial…

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