Latest Attraction at French Theme Park: Crows That Pick Up ...
No, that crow casually holding a cigarette butt in its beak isn’t a smoker. It’s meant to “make […]
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Hundreds of Reindeer Died by Lightning. Their Carcasses Became a ...
“From death comes life,” said researchers who studied how decomposing bodies, with the help of scavengers, might alter […]
Perseid Fireball and Persistent Train
Before local midnight on August 12, this brilliant Perseid meteor flashed above the Poloniny Dark Sky Park, Slovakia, […]
Archaeologists Find 3,200-Year-Old Cheese in an Egyptian Tomb by NIRAJ ...
The cheese was found in a tomb that had been thought lost to shifting sands until it was […]
Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers by KENNETH ...
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said they were “converging on the truth” in an experiment to understand […]
Paternity Tests at the Penguin House by JOANNA KLEIN
New research challenges assumptions that some penguins mate for life, and suggests DNA testing is needed to avoid […]
The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness by JAMES GORMAN
To dig a nest tunnel quickly and get the most out of their efforts, 30 percent of fire […]
Trapped in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber, a Beetle With Pilfered Pollen by ...
The discovery is among the strongest evidence in the fossil record that the insects pollinated prehistoric cycads, a […]
Launch of the Parker Solar Probe
When is the best time to launch a probe to the Sun? The now historic answer — which […]
The ‘Zombie Gene’ That May Protect Elephants From Cancer by ...
With such enormous bodies, elephants should be particularly prone to tumors. But an ancient gene in their DNA, […]