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Scientific Study Branch Settlement (Posted on 2023-07-26)

• Consider the branch of a scientific study.
• Remove the last letter.
• The remaining letters of the word can now be rearranged to name precisely 2 subjects of that study.

Name this branch of science.

Note: Adapted from a problem which appeared in NPR's Sunday Puzzle in November, 2022.

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta

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Astronomy -> astronom -> moon star

I like the following anagram better as it is one word:

astronomer -> moon-starer

(I just tell people that I study heavenly bodies)

Posted by Steven Lord on 2023-07-26 17:13:54

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