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lg:max-w-5xl"><section class="w-full"><h1 class="font-serif text-5xl text-slate-800 dark:text-slate-100 font-light mt-2 mb-4 w-full">Live Science</h1><div><div class="flex flex-col w-full mb-20"><h2 class="font-serif text-3xl text-slate-600 dark:text-slate-400 font-light mb-6 mt-6">Dinosaurs</h2><div class="lg:px-4"><div class="relative flex flex-col lg:flex-row p-8 space-x-8"><div><div class="lg:w-72 p-5 flex justify-center"><div><img class="rounded-md -rotate-3 drop-shadow-md" src="/build/_assets/dinosaurs-FNC4AHSY.jpeg" alt="a t-rex dinosaur"/><div class="text-xs text-slate-400 mt-6 ">Credit: Laura Geggel</div></div></div></div><div><div class="flex-col divide-y divide-solid divide-slate-200 dark:divide-slate-600"><div class="py-2"><div class="py-2"><a style="-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone" class="px-2 py-1 text-lg text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-200 hover:bg-blue-700 dark:hover:bg-teal-400 hover:text-white dark:hover:text-slate-900 font-semibold" 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But It Did Walk on 4 Legs As an Infant.</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col w-full mb-20"><h2 class="font-serif text-3xl text-slate-600 dark:text-slate-400 font-light mb-6 mt-6">Planet Earth</h2><div class="lg:px-4"><div class="relative flex flex-col lg:flex-row p-8 space-x-8"><div><div class="lg:w-72 p-5 flex justify-center"><div><img class="rounded-md -rotate-3 drop-shadow-md" src="/build/_assets/planet-earth-L67ZUKAD.jpeg" alt="a satellite image"/><div class="text-xs text-slate-400 mt-6 ">Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.</div></div></div></div><div><div class="flex-col divide-y divide-solid divide-slate-200 dark:divide-slate-600"><div class="py-2"><div class="py-2"><a style="-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone" class="px-2 py-1 text-lg text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-200 hover:bg-blue-700 dark:hover:bg-teal-400 hover:text-white dark:hover:text-slate-900 font-semibold" href="https://www.livescience.com/65880-planting-trees-fights-climate-change.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Want to Fight Climate Change? Plant 1 Trillion Trees.</a></div></div><div class="py-2"><div class="py-2"><a style="-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone" class="px-2 py-1 text-lg text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-200 hover:bg-blue-700 dark:hover:bg-teal-400 hover:text-white dark:hover:text-slate-900 font-semibold" href="https://www.livescience.com/ancient-rainforest-antarctica.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Remains of 90 million-year-old rainforest discovered under Antarctic ice</a></div></div><div class="py-2"><div class="py-2"><a style="-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone" class="px-2 py-1 text-lg text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-200 hover:bg-blue-700 dark:hover:bg-teal-400 hover:text-white dark:hover:text-slate-900 font-semibold" href="http://www.livescience.com/57785-accusations-on-climate-change-study-off-base.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Despite Whistleblower's Concerns, Climate Change Study Called Sound</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col w-full mb-20"><h2 class="font-serif text-3xl text-slate-600 dark:text-slate-400 font-light mb-6 mt-6">History</h2><div class="lg:px-4"><div class="relative flex flex-col lg:flex-row p-8 space-x-8"><div><div class="lg:w-72 p-5 flex justify-center"><div><img class="rounded-md -rotate-3 drop-shadow-md" src="/build/_assets/history-FM5CSEFG.jpeg" alt="Mummy of Artemidora"/><div class="text-xs text-slate-400 mt-6 ">Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911/The Met; CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)</div></div></div></div><div><div class="flex-col divide-y divide-solid divide-slate-200 dark:divide-slate-600"><div class="py-2"><div class="py-2"><a style="-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone" class="px-2 py-1 text-lg text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-200 hover:bg-blue-700 dark:hover:bg-teal-400 hover:text-white dark:hover:text-slate-900 font-semibold" href="https://www.livescience.com/egypt-mummy-murdered-with-knife.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Egyptian mummy cold case closed: 'Takabuti' was stabbed to death</a></div></div><div class="py-2"><div class="py-2"><a style="-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone" class="px-2 py-1 text-lg text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-200 hover:bg-blue-700 dark:hover:bg-teal-400 hover:text-white dark:hover:text-slate-900 font-semibold" href="https://www.livescience.com/princely-tomb-iron-age-italy.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Princely tomb of Iron Age mystery man discovered in Italy. And there's a chariot inside.</a></div></div><div class="py-2"><div class="py-2"><a style="-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone" class="px-2 py-1 text-lg text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-200 hover:bg-blue-700 dark:hover:bg-teal-400 hover:text-white dark:hover:text-slate-900 font-semibold" href="https://www.livescience.com/65649-paleo-american-genes-survive-today.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">These First Americans Vanished Without a Trace — But Hints of Them Linger</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col w-full mb-20"><h2 class="font-serif text-3xl text-slate-600 dark:text-slate-400 font-light mb-6 mt-6">Amazing Animals</h2><div class="lg:px-4"><div class="relative flex flex-col lg:flex-row p-8 space-x-8"><div><div class="lg:w-72 p-5 flex justify-center"><div><img class="rounded-md -rotate-3 drop-shadow-md" src="/build/_assets/amazing-animals-TCW262LJ.jpeg" alt=""/><div class="text-xs text-slate-400 mt-6 ">Credit: Pascale Jones/Pairi Daiza</div></div></div></div><div><div class="flex-col divide-y divide-solid divide-slate-200 dark:divide-slate-600"><div class="py-2"><div class="py-2"><a style="-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone" class="px-2 py-1 text-lg text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-200 hover:bg-blue-700 dark:hover:bg-teal-400 hover:text-white dark:hover:text-slate-900 font-semibold" href="https://www.livescience.com/orangutan-otter-friends.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Orangutans and otters strike up darling friendship at Belgium zoo</a></div></div><div class="py-2"><div class="py-2"><a style="-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone" class="px-2 py-1 text-lg text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-200 hover:bg-blue-700 dark:hover:bg-teal-400 hover:text-white dark:hover:text-slate-900 font-semibold" href="https://www.livescience.com/cougars-plague-yellowstone.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Yellowstone study finds plague (yes, that plague) in nearly half of tested cougars</a></div></div><div class="py-2"><div class="py-2"><a style="-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone" class="px-2 py-1 text-lg text-slate-700 dark:text-slate-200 hover:bg-blue-700 dark:hover:bg-teal-400 hover:text-white dark:hover:text-slate-900 font-semibold" href="https://www.livescience.com/ancient-fish-fingers.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Fish sprouted fingers before they ventured onto land, fossil shows</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col w-full mb-20"><h2 class="font-serif text-3xl text-slate-600 dark:text-slate-400 font-light mb-6 mt-6">Life's Little Mysteries</h2><div class="lg:px-4"><div class="relative flex flex-col lg:flex-row p-8 space-x-8"><div><div class="lg:w-72 p-5 flex justify-center"><div><img class="rounded-md -rotate-3 drop-shadow-md" src="/build/_assets/life-s-little-mysteries-WFJ5ISRT.jpeg" alt=""/><div class="text-xs text-slate-400 mt-6 ">Credit: Ballplayer Panel, A.D. 700/800; 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