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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.For generations a massive iron meteorite sat in the Somali desert, becoming a landmark where children played…

By night, Lamine Hanoun works as a hospital guard in Bir Moghrein, near Mauritania’s border with Morocco-occupied Western Sahara. By day, he twiddles his phone, checking…