Sinking Cities, Waving Cuttlefish and Falling Spacecraft

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  For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman.

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  Let's catch up on some of the science news you may have missed last week.

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  First, a space junk update.

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  By the time you listen to this, a Soviet-era spacecraft may or may not have crash-landed on Earth.

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  Cosmos 482, which the USSR launched back in 1972,

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  was meant to follow the successful probes Venera 7 and Venera 8 in landing on and studying Venus.

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  But a suspected engine malfunction meant that Cosmos 482 never achieved enough velocity to escape Earth's orbit.

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