Politics
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If You Give a Frog a Sauna, It Might Fight Off a Deadly Fungus
A fatal fungal disease has devastated the world’s amphibians. But the fungus has a vulnerability: It cannot tolerate heat.
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A Feline Scientist Explains Why Your Cat Might Actually Like You
Cats are more social than they are often given credit for. Can you help yours access its inner dog?
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He Monitors Solar Flares. Here’s What Keeps Him Up at Night.
Mike Bettwy, a government meteorologist who focuses on potential threats from space weather, says that we are more prepared than…
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‘Arctic Blast’ of Leaky Water Halts Spacewalk by NASA Astronauts
It was the second scheduled spacewalk by NASA astronauts aboard the space station that faced an interruption this month.
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Unlikely Wild Animals Are Being Smuggled Into U.S. Ports: Corals
With the sea creatures making up a growing share of illegal animal seizures around the world, U.S. officials are working…
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Piping Up at the Gates of Dawn
Since the James Webb Space Telescope began operating two years ago, astronomers have been using it to leapfrog one another…
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Are We Loving Our Pets to Death?
Pet owners are treating their animal charges ever more like humans. But that isn’t good for pets, or for us,…
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‘Tiny Crime Fighters With Wings’: Bees Go to Work on a Virginia ‘Body Farm’
By studying bees and their honey near decomposing human tissue, researchers at George Mason University hope to give crime scene…
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How Flounder Wound Up With an Epic Side-Eye
Flatfish offer an evolutionary puzzle: How did one eye gradually migrate to the other side?
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Leaping Leeches! Watch These Bloodsuckers Jump.
There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at…