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 […]
Curiosity Rover Takes Selfie on Mars
Yes, but have you ever taken a selfie on Mars? The Curiosity rover on Mars has. This selfie […]
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 […]
NGC 7822: Stars and Dust Pillars in Infrared
Young stars themselves are clearing out their nursery in NGC 7822. Within the nebula, bright edges and complex […]
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 […]
Friday the Moon Smiled
Friday, an old Moon smiled for early morning risers. Its waning sunlit crescent is captured in this atmospheric […]