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Small trial suggests
Compost of human bodies
May well be fruitful.
Scientists wrestle
With funeral-like sadness
Over climate change.
Ancient hominid,
The Nutcracker Man, made tools,
Launched global warming.
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Sea turtles confuse
The smell of ocean plastic
For a food supply
For U S Census,
Many don’t recognize race
They’re supposed to be.
Clogging the night sky,
Fleets of private satellites
Obstruct telescopes
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Slime mold tendrils show
Intricacies similar
To the cosmic web.
Ancient Aztec court
Sheds light on the sacred game
Which sustained their world.
Studies show seas take
Hundreds of years to break down
Discarded Legos.
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Astronomers have
Found edge of the Milky Way;
Bigger than it looks
To stop virus spread,
Assume each of your close friends
Has more friends than you.
Ancient fossil skull,
Possibly from African
Ghost population.
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Nature needs more space;
Thirty percent’s too little
To shield it from us.
Social distancing
Ends when the government knows
Your every move.
Ground-breaking study
Finds reasons why elephants
Get easily drunk.
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While virus rages;
Mystery still remains why
Otters juggle rocks.
Scientists sometimes
Conceal a lack of knowledge
By using vague words
A new 3-D map
Illuminates the little brain
We have in our hearts.
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Ron Yazinski © 2021
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Ron Yazinski is a retired English teacher who lives with his beautiful wife in Winter Garden, Florida. The haikus in this microchap are based on headlines from Science News. Many are close to their original wording. Others have been tweaked slightly to fit the poetic form. In many ways they are found haikus, the best kind.