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The Periscope: Book Weeding, Fact-Checking, and Imperiled Fruit Fly Data
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The Indomitable Jane Goodall
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New Life for Rotting Seaweed
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Should We Bring the Dead Back to Life?
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A Library for Fish Sounds
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Deep Sleep Is This Mammal’s Super Power
How a threatened Australian marsupial is thriving in the face of drought -
Seeking Signs of Life on Venus
The first private mission to the morning star will sample for traces of biological activity in the planet’s clouds -
Ghostly Swamp Lightning Explained
The tiny sparks behind spooky myths might have also started life on Earth
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The Extreme Animals in Our Backyards
Alex Riley’s three greatest revelations while writing Super Natural
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A Pediatrician’s Lament
How the blustery rhetoric of Trump and Kennedy makes life harder for local physicians
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Earth’s Largest Mirror Shattered by Science
The Bolivian salt flat long touted as a massive looking glass loses some of its shine
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Butterfly Wings Inspire Barrier-Breaking Nanotech
Mimicking the charismatic insect’s trick for flashing iridescent blue allows devices to grow ever smaller
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How AI Is Helping Archaeologists Make Discoveries
New clues about ancient civilizations are being unearthed from the data
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Modeling the Deep
An ambitious mission seeks to map the flow of crucial chemicals through marine food webs in far-flung oceanic gyres
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A Nano-sized Art Gallery
Vote on your favorite miniature art pieces and discover their link to futuristic research -
The Silent Language of Birds
These songbirds swap chirps for blinks when nature drowns them out -
Extraterrestrials are People, Too
Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them? -
Is Life a Form of Computation?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same. -
New Eyes on Space Weather
From threats of solar storms to cosmic radiation, new efforts to warn Earthlings are launching