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This newfound longhorn beetle species is unusually fluffy

Meet Excastra albopilosa, a newly identified species of longhorn beetle that rocks an unusually fluffy white coat....

The Paradox That’s Supercharging Climate Change

No good deed goes unpunished—and that includes trying to slow climate change. By cutting greenhouse gas emissions,...

It Takes Guts to Fix Wind Turbines for a Living

Maybe you think they’re majestic. Maybe you think they’re an eyesore. No matter how you feel about...

The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision

Brian Bussard has 25 tiny chips in his brain. They were installed in February 2022 as part...

The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Physicists have begun to explore the proton as...

Space Force Is Planning a Military Exercise in Orbit

The US Space Force announced Thursday it is partnering with two companies, Rocket Lab and True Anomaly,...

Toronto Wants to Manage Storms and Floods—With a Rain Tax

This story originally appeared on Canada’s National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A plan...

Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies?

Just because you see something done in a movie, that doesn't mean you should try it yourself....

In a first, these crab spiders appear to collaborate, creating camouflage

Some crab spiders have ditched webs for flowers. Masters of disguise, female Thomisus guangxicus spiders blend in...

Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways

Last Friday, a health alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pinged its way across...

How a sugar acid crucial for life could have formed in interstellar clouds

Researchers may have figured out how a crucial ingredient that cells need to produce energy could form...

Teens are using an unregulated form of THC. Here’s what we know

Walk into a gas station in the United States, and you may see more than just boxes...
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