Science
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Watch a Giant Stingray’s Safe Return to Its River Home
Just after dawn on May 5, scientists working along a stretch of the Mekong River in Cambodia released a giant,…
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Scientists Found an Animal That Walks on Three Limbs. It’s a Parrot.
Lovebirds, small parrots with vibrant rainbow plumage and cheeky personalities, are popular pets. They swing from ropes, cuddle with companions…
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Elephants in Mourning Spotted on YouTube by Scientists
It was 2013 when Sanjeeta Pokharel first witnessed Asian elephants responding to death. An older female elephant in an Indian…
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NASA Starts Countdown to Robotic Mission’s End on Mars
NASA’s InSight spacecraft is not quite dead yet. But InSight, a stationary robotic probe on Mars, has been steadily growing…
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A Total Lunar Eclipse in Prime-Time: How to Watch
Finally a good reason to stay up on Sunday night: A total lunar eclipse. Lunar watchers throughout the United States…
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The Trigger That Makes an Octopus Mom Self-Destruct
Most octopus species live for one year. But the deaths of octopus mothers after they reproduce have long been a…
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While Building a House, They Dug Up a Chamber for Ancient Gods
When the builders started digging the foundation of a house in 2017 in Başbük, a village in Turkey about 70…
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Has the Milky Way’s Black Hole Come to Light?
What’s going on with our galaxy? Astronomers have long suspected that 26,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, lurking behind…
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Deadly Venom From Spiders and Snakes May Also Cure What Ails You
TUCSON, Ariz. — In a small room in a building at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, the invertebrate keeper, Emma Califf,…
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Hydroponic Lettuce Was Seen as Safe From Salmonella, Until an Outbreak
Countless saladlovers have embraced hydroponic produce, confident that baby lettuce, arugula and herbs raised indoors in greenhouses are safer ...
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