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This tentacled, parasitic ‘fairy lantern’ plant is new to science

In the weird world of chlorophyll-free “fairy lantern” plants, there’s a new species to admire. Fairy lanterns...

Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing

Rising sea levels, biodiversity collapse, extreme weather—these are the grisly horsemen of climate apocalypse. But don’t forget...

Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI’s Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Moore’s law is already pretty fast. It holds...

Celebrating the second law of thermodynamics

Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor...

How to Avoid Getting Sick This Summer

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.As flowers bloom and temperatures climb,...

Readers react to a rare visual disorder, microplastics in arteries and more

Let’s face it Scientists re-created the demonic distortions that a patient with prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO,...

Ukrainian Sailors Are Using Telegram to Avoid Being Tricked Into Smuggling Oil for Russia

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A new video...

Early ants may have had complex social lives, fossil data suggests

Even the earliest ants may have been social butterflies. Ants fossilized in 100-million-year-old amber have sensory...

Physicists measured Earth’s rotation using quantum entanglement

Earth’s rotation has been measured many times over — but never like this. In a first,...

The Arctic is warming rapidly. These clouds may hold clues as to why

In the Arctic, a mysterious atmospheric phenomenon generates some of the oddest clouds on Earth. Up there,...

A malaria drug could be used to treat PCOS, a common hormone disorder

A common antimalarial drug could also be used to treat polycystic ovarian syndrome, an endocrine disorder that...

‘Echidnapus’ hints at a lost age of egg-laying mammals

The Australian platypus is one of Earth’s most unusual creatures — but there was a time when...
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