The Scuba Diving Flies of California’s Mono Lake by JOANNA ...
For most insects, water is a death trap. These alkali flies cover themselves with a bubble of air […]
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Tricky Cockatoos Match Shapes Better Than Primates by JAMES GORMAN
Goffin’s cockatoos, known for their inventiveness, showed a great talent for fitting even complicated shapes into matching holes. […]
A Helping of Science With Your Thanksgiving Dinner by MICHAEL ...
Biology. Chemistry. Physics. It’s all there on your plate. Take a moment to appreciate it before you dig […]
Rock Carvings of Ancient Dogs Getting Taught New Tricks by ...
Engravings in the Saudi desert may be the earliest depictions of human-canine companionship. Published: November 20, 2017 at […]
Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium ...
The government and Tepco officials designed radiation-hardened machines to search for the fuel that escaped the plant’s ruined […]
How Snapdragons Beckon Bees With More Than One Color by ...
Subspecies of the flowers share most of their genes, but differ in a handful that lead to some […]
Same Oceans, Similar Prey, Two Very Different Necks by VERONIQUE ...
Biologists studied cormorants and penguins that hunt fish in frigid seas and found that cormorants save energy by […]
The Chemical Reaction That Cleans Everything by C. CLAIBORNE RAY
Bleach may be common, but the molecular dance that makes it work is an intricate wonder. Published: November […]
A Close-Up on Mysteries Made of Stone in Saudi Arabia’s ...
Structures that may have been created by ancient tribes could only be studied using Google Earth. Saudi officials […]
An Experiment in Zurich Brings Us Nearer to a Black ...
IBM researchers used an exotic material known as a Weyl semimetal to confirm the existence of a gravitational […]