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Is camouflage better than warning colors? For insects, it depends

Prey animals can use their colors to hide from predators or dissuade them from attacking. But local...

Striking moments make previous memories stronger

Chenyang (Leo) Lin grew up in a coastal city in southern China, far from any woods. So,...

Astronomers Have Found 6,000 Planets Outside the Solar System

The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has...

Ice is more flexible than you think, a new nano-movie shows

In the dog days of summer, popping a tray of water into the freezer to make ice...

Dwarf planet Makemake sports the most remote gas in the solar system

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports...

Two of Greece’s most dangerous volcanoes share an underground link

An intense swarm of earthquakes around Greece’s Santorini Island in January has revealed a fiery underground link...

Staph bacteria are bad at letting go

Some microbes can be quite clingy. Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial species responsible for staph infections, latches onto...

A Startup Used AI to Make a Psychedelic Without the Trip

While there's growing evidence that psychedelic drugs can effectively treat severe mental health conditions, especially in cases...

The World’s Oceans Are Hurtling Toward a Breaking Point

For life on Earth, the oceans are essential. Not only do they supply us with food and...

Trump’s Tylenol Directive Could Actually Increase Autism Rates, Researchers Warn

For decades, the discussion around autism has been a hotbed of misinformation, misinterpretation, and bad science, ranging...

With little proof, Trump links Tylenol to autism and touts a treatment

Just six months ago, the Trump administration promised to find the cause of autism. On September 22,...

This black hole flipped its magnetic field

The magnetic field swirling around an enormous black hole, located about 55 million light-years from Earth, has...
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