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![How do you make cosmic sausage?](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/18/example-of-a-barred-galaxy.jpg?w=800)
Science
How do you make cosmic sausage?
![Tomato plant grown on ISS](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/15/Capture-2023-12-15-110212.png?w=800)
International Space Station
The ISS missing tomato scandal has come to a close
![A bearded seal swimming in Arctic waters in Svalbard, Norway. Their name comes from the long and sensitive facial whiskers that they use to find food.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/14/seal-nose.jpeg?w=800)
Animals
Arctic seals have special noses
![The skull of a Swedish Viking dating back to the 10th through 12th Century CE undergoes a dental examination.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/13/skull-dental-examination.png?w=800)
Archaeology
Vikings filed their teeth to cope with pain
![Thick smoke from a wildfire in the tundra in Alaska.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/08/tundra-wildfire.jpeg?w=800)
Climate Change
Wildfires are thawing the tundra
![LHS 3154b, a newly discovered massive planet that should be too big to exist.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/06/the-planet-that-should-not-exist.jpg?w=800)
Deep Space
The planet that should not exist
![Waves on the ocean.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/06/ocean-methane.png?w=800)
Climate Change