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See a 3-D map of stellar nurseries based on data from the Gaia telescope

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

Meet the ‘grue jay,’ a rare hybrid songbird

There was something strange about the turquoise-colored songbird flying around San Antonio in 2023. With its black-and-white...

5 More Physics Equations Everyone Should Know

In January I wrote a piece titled “5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know.” Lots of you weighed...

Could These Eye Drops End the Need for Reading Glasses?

The Stats don’t lie: after age 65, most people will struggle to focus visually on close-up objects....

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...
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