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Hey Shore Wavers, Regina Barber here. And Emily Kwong. With our bi-weekly science news roundup featuring the host of All Things Considered, one of our favorites, Elsa Chang. Hello! Hey!
The squad's back together.
Yes, the squad. Okay, so there are three science stories that really caught our attention this week and we're really excited to share them with you.
All right, what are they? We have two students that developed new mathematics for the Pythagorean theorem. Another one about how overripe fruit in the wild may have affected animal evolution. And finally, the discovery of a fossil that sheds new light on the life cycle of frogs.
So cool.
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