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Pheromone fingers may help poison frogs mate

During mating, some male poison frogs embrace their partner’s face in a love-potion-laced hug.  The amorous amphibians...

Mountain Bikers Are Rewilding Land by Paying the Government to Do It

The dark spaces beneath the conifers make it feel as if the mountain bikers are emerging from...

Climate change is driving the extreme heat baking France’s Olympics

Il fait trop chaud. The Paris Olympics officially opened on July 26, just in time for athletes...

Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the World

Jane Goodall understands better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. The world, the...

‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Sometimes mathematicians try to tackle a problem head...

See the Perseids and Southern Delta Aquariids in a Stunning Double Meteor Shower

Get ready to see a double meteor shower featuring one of the biggest and brightest meteor showers...

NASA Is ‘Evaluating All Options’ to Get the Boeing Starliner Crew Home

It has now been eight weeks since Boeing's Starliner spacecraft launched into orbit on an Atlas V...

How to Stop Wildfire Smoke Damaging Your Health

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.When wildfires rage, the immediate threat...

The Fight to Save Florida’s Oranges

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Oranges are synonymous with...

No, the Seine Cleanup Wasn’t a Failure

When Olympic triathletes plunged into the Seine river close to the Alexandre III bridge in Paris on...

Alzheimer’s blood tests are getting better, but still have a ways to go

Alzheimer’s disease is hard to diagnose. But proteins in the blood might provide clarity. A series of...

Tycho Brahe dabbled in alchemy. Broken glassware is revealing his recipes

Artifacts from the ruins of a medieval laboratory are spilling a famous scientist’s secrets. A chemical analysis...
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