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Coolest science photos of the week

by JoAnna Wendel

A transmission electron micrograph image showing particles of SARS-CoV-2, the virus at the center of the Covid-19 pandemic. As of May 2020, More than 4 million people around the world have contracted the virus and more than 200,000 people have died.

Alekos Simoni/Imperial College London

Undergrad entomologist Joseph Schubert tweeted this picture of an unfortunate insect getting chomped by a ground-dwelling spider.

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