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Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that mounted a defense, felt out of place, found new life, and resurrected the gods of yore.

First, a tale of pregnant stinkbugs, parasitic wasps, and fungi weapons that…

Gamma ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, briefly outshining entire galaxies in a violent flash of high energy radiation. These – excuse the pun – astronomical detonations release more energy in a few seconds than our

A star died in a way that astronomers had long suspected but never seen so clearly. Its remains show two separate layers of debris, the calling card of a double explosion.

The object sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy about…