Cicadas pee in jet streams like bigger animals
Cicadas are known for emerging in the billions. These groups chatter so loudly that fiber optic cables can pick up...
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5 space robots that could heal human bodies—or even grow new ones
IN ONE OF HUMANITY’S many possible futures, the fearless explorers tasked with climbing cloud-splitting mountains in oxygen-poor atmospheres or charting...
New squid alert! 100+ species discovered off the coast of New Zealand
The Pacific is the largest and deepest ocean basin on the planet. Scientists barely know just how many different organisms...
11 Chemistry Facts That Will Leave You Amazed
The world of chemistry is complex yet wildly interesting. From everyday things to those you will only find in a...
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Dinosaurs survived one mass extinction, but then their luck ran out
Dinosaur Mysteries digs into the secretive side of the “terrible lizards” and all the questions that keep paleontologists up at night....
15 captivating photos of auroras seen from space
An aurora is a dazzling spectacle to witness down here on Earth, but from space, you get an entirely different...
ChatGPT’s accuracy has gotten worse, study shows
A pair of new studies presents a problematic dichotomy for OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language model programs. Although its popular generative...
These meat-eating plants are masters of deception
TIME AND AGAIN, plants have evolved the ability to eat animals. From Madagascar to North Carolina, wildly different kinds of...
‘Alien’ signal was likely a very big truck
There’s no doubt an extremely bright fireball careened through the atmosphere north of Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014....
These extinct termites have been stuck in a mating position for 38 million years
It was a mosquito full of dinosaur blood and encased in amber that helped bring the fictional Jurassic Park to...
An enormous radio telescope may soon be a powerful tool for planetary defense
In Overmatched, we take a close look at the science and technology at the heart of the defense industry—the world of...
