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If you were collecting the news, what would you ask your sources? Now, are the answers to these questions in the stories you read? If not, maybe you’re looking for news in the wrong places.

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Some people needed boats to deal with catastrophic flooding, seen here, due to Tropical Storm Harvey’s astounding downpours in Texas last week. Such mega-storms could become more common, scientists worry.

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The first nationwide estimates of teens’ and preteens’ use of marijuana in e-cigarettes raise concerns about addiction and long-term health risks.

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Science & Society

Teen vaping of marijuana raises concerns about addiction

a screen capture from the film "First Man" showing Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong before boarding the Apollo 11 spacecraft

In this image from First Man, Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong walks to the Apollo 11 spacecraft before taking off for his historic moon landing.

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Space

The movie ‘First Man’ captures early spaceflight's terror

A photo of Folsom Lake in California from October 2015. There is no water to be seen. A white pick-up truck is driving diagonally from the left to the right along a dry path.

California’s Folsom Lake in October 2015. So much water evaporated that a full size truck could drive across parts of the lake bed without getting wet. Studies seek to test whether such extreme weather was driven by climate change.

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Weather & Climate

Fingerprint of climate change shows up in some extreme weather

Due to impending sea level rise, this island nation in the Pacific Ocean — the Maldives — is among the most threatened anywhere by climate change.

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Weather & Climate

Half a degree can make a world of difference

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a young man leaning on a red car while on his phone, the bumper of his car is crumpled because he has been in a car accident

Teen drivers are more likely to get into car crashes than adult drivers. Inexperience and a greater inattentiveness to what’s happening on the road play appear to foster those youthful accidents, data show.

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Behavior

Here’s what puts teen drivers at greatest risk of a crash

A young woman is smiling and talking on her cell-phone

A new study finds that teens who get more exposure to cell-phone radiation — and hold their phones on the right — do worse on one type of memory test.

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Health

Teens’ cell phone use linked to memory problems

A photo of a loggerhead shrike, a small gray bird with a black mask and a white stomach, perched on a branch against a blue sky. It is holding a dead lizard with its foot.

The San Clemente loggerhead shrike lives on San Clemente Island off the California coast. This mild-looking songbird delivers potentially fatal shakings to small vertebrates — such as the dead lizard it now holds.

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Animals

These songbirds can fling and shake mice to death

This computer rendering shows what the 600-meter-long (2,000-foot) Ocean Cleanup system will look like floating in the North Pacific. Currents will push on the boom to form a u-shape. The system is designed to trap bits of plastic that boats can collect later.

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Pollution

Enormous floating barrier will corral ocean trash

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