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/ 2 months agoThis fish may play a hole in its head like a drum
The rockhead poacher is a little fish with a big pit in its head. The divot may be like a drum,...
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/ 2 months agoAnimal personalities can play a big role in saving species
From bold foxes to gregarious birds, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as crucial to conservation efforts.Read More
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/ 2 months agoColor blindness hides a key warning sign of bladder cancer
A large U.S. health records study suggests that difficulty seeing blood in urine may put color-blind patients at higher risk.Read More
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/ 2 months agoHow cheetah mummies could help bring the species back to Arabia
Arabian cheetah mummies’ DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in northwestern Africa.Read More
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/ 2 months agoThis dino’s fossil claw suggests it snatched eggs, not insects
A 67-million-year-old claw fossil reveals a new dinosaur species that may have used its hand spikes to snatch and pierce eggs.Read...
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/ 2 months agoPlants packed close enough to touch are more resilient to stress
Signals transmitted via leaves can warn neighboring plants of stressful events, making the group collectively more resilient than plants in isolation.Read...
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/ 2 months agoEarth’s last 3 years were its hottest on record
For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.Read More
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/ 2 months agoThis ancient pottery holds the earliest evidence of humans doing math
Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.Read More
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/ 2 months agoBotox could be used to fight snakebite
A study on rabbits dosed with viper venom suggests that botulinum toxin may alleviate some effects of snakebite, possibly by dampening...
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/ 2 months agoIn a new kind of plant trickery, this yam fools birds with fake berries
Black-bulb yam’s mimicry tricks birds into spreading its berrylike clones. The plant’s novel strategy helps it spread without seeds or sexual...



