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Adding Fertilizer to Flowers Makes Them Appear Repulsive to Passing Bees
Fertilizers may change the way flowers 'look' to bees and discourage them from pollinating, a study suggests. → Read More
Subatomic Particles Falling From The Sky Are Exposing The Inner Secrets of Volcanoes
Muons are everywhere. Unbeknownst to you, several hundred strike your head every second. → Read More
Poaching Has Caused 'Rapid Evolution' of Tuskless Elephants, New Study Reveals
Shane Campbell-Staton, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University, spent most of his career researching lizards. → Read More
Dogs Really Are Hard-Wired to Understand Humans From Birth, Experiments Show
Dogs often seem uncannily shrewd about what we're trying to tell them. → Read More
A Chunk From The Sunken Continent of Zealandia Is Twice as Old as We Thought
About 3,500 feet under the South Pacific sits a piece of land 2 million square miles in size – about half as big as Australia. → Read More
The Entire ISS Just Spun Around as New Russian Module Malfunctioned After Docking
A new Russian space-station module malfunctioned after it docked on Thursday. The module, called Nauka, starting unexpectedly firing its thrusters — which moved the entire station out of position. → Read More
YouTuber Wins Crazy $10,000 Bet With Professor by 'Breaking' The Laws of Physics
When Derek Muller took an experimental land yacht for a spin this spring, he wasn't aiming to stir up scientific controversy. He certainly wasn't trying to win $US10,000 in a bet. → Read More
NASA Is About to Try a 'Risky' Maneuver to Save Hubble, Which Is Still Offline
After a month of head-scratching, NASA engineers finally think they've identified the glitch that took out the world's most powerful space telescope more than a month ago. → Read More
Canada's Devastating Wildfires Are Generating Storms With 'Fire-Breathing' Clouds
Record heat and growing wildfires are creating firestorms that can generate their own lightning in the skies above British Columbia, Canada. → Read More
Oldest Known Plague Victim Was Just Discovered. It Was 4,000 Years Before Black Death
Five thousand years ago, a rodent bit a Stone Age hunter-gatherer. The creature carried a strain of pernicious bacteria called Yersinia pestis – the pathogen that caused the Black Death, or bubonic plague in the 1300s. → Read More
Most Detailed Map of The Universe's Dark Matter Reveals Physics-Defying Cosmic Voids
Astronomers have created the most comprehensive map yet of all the dark matter in the universe. → Read More
Lab or Nature? The Current Evidence For Each of The SARS-CoV-2 Origin Theories
It's the theory that refuses to die: Might the coronavirus have leaked out of a Chinese lab? → Read More
Here's How Many Years in Advance We'd Need to Stop a Killer Asteroid Coming For Earth
Last month, experts from NASA and other space agencies around the world faced a troubling hypothetical scenario: A mysterious asteroid had just been discovered 35 million miles away, and it was heading for Earth. The space rock was expected to hit → Read More
Meet Guin Guin, The Fluffy Penguin Toy Crew Member of The Recent SpaceX Launch
SpaceX's latest rocket launch included a special guest: an adorable penguin toy named "Guin Guin." → Read More
A Buried Chunk of Alien World Could Be Behind a Weak Spot in Earth's Magnetic Field
Earth's suit of geomagnetic armor has a chink, and it's growing. → Read More
The US Has Reached a Terrifying And Precarious Moment in The Pandemic. Here's Why
Although 23 percent of the US population is now vaccinated against the coronavirus, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned of "impending doom." → Read More
Origins of Mysterious Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua May Finally Be Explained
The origin and identity of a massive space object that careened past Earth in 2017 have remained a mystery ever since. → Read More
NASA Says 2020 Was Basically The Hottest Year on Earth Since Records Began
NASA announced Thursday that 2020 was likely the planet's hottest year on record, edging out 2016 by one-tenth of a degree Celsius. The temperatures were close enough to fall within the scientists' margin of error, so they considered it "a statistica → Read More
Video Shows The Heartbreaking Moment The Arecibo Telescope Collapsed
The second-largest radio telescope in the world collapsed on Tuesday morning. → Read More
New Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Immunity Can Last 6 to 8 Months After Infection
We now have the best answer yet to a crucial, lingering question about COVID-19: how long immunity lasts. → Read More