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This week in science news, we followed an expedition to the bottom of the world in search of a lava lake, tracked a mysterious chunk of the moon orbiting Earth and discovered something horrifying hiding in someone's ear canal.
Shifting from Antarctica to Africa, we learnt of a "world-class aquifer" in the Sahara, an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead and the"small miracle" of genetically linking living people with skulls stolen from Africa a century ago and stored in a German museum. —World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works—Humans and Neanderthals mated 250,000 years ago, much earlier than thought
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Experts say the superpowered storm could have been the largest since the Carrington Event in 1859, but if that wasn't spooky enough, the sun's upcoming period of peak activity, the solar maximum, looks set to be the strongest in decades.
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