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The Secret Electrostatic World of Insects

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a honeybee....

Drop in vaping drives tobacco product use by U.S. youth to a record low

The fewest number of U.S. teens and tweens in 25 years are currently using tobacco products. According...

A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People

For years, they had been losing their central vision—what allows people to see letters, faces, and details...

Male mosquitoes sometimes suck, too

Male mosquitoes may be nearly as bloodthirsty as females under certain conditions, new research suggests. That upends...

OceanGate Faces Federal Investigation a Year After the Titan Submersible Implosion

The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has contacted former OceanGate employees...

The U.S. empire was built on bird dung

In December 1855 and January 1856, a trio of vessels set sail from the United States to...

The ‘Mekong ghost’ megafish has resurfaced after an extinction scare 

The “Mekong ghost” fish is a ghost no more. Like the legendary Rip Van Winkle, who wandered...

How insects can help catch rhino poachers

In 1988, police officers in Australia came for Ian Dadour. Not because the entomologist was under arrest,...

This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit journalism organization.It’s...

A new implant tested in animals reverses drug overdoses

Naloxone has saved thousands of lives by reversing opioid overdoses. But its success hinges on someone being...

Polar bears are being exposed to more pathogens as the climate warms

Polar bears face mounting challenges in a changing, warming world, mostly related to their waning wintery wonderland...

Silk Road cities reached surprising heights in Central Asia’s mountains

Two high-altitude, medieval cities built by mobile herders along Silk Road trade routes in Central Asia have...
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