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Image by Ramesh Thadani/Getty Images Animals in the Amazon Use ‘the Internet’ to Communicate. Here’s How It Works.
Birds and monkeys in the Peruvian Amazon pass predator warnings from species to species like a rainforest panic chain.
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Slavica/Getty Images Parrots Can Learn Your Name (and Then Use It Against You)
The birds weren’t just repeating words. Some appeared to use names correctly for humans, pets, and each other.
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Nopparit/Getty Images Scientists Found a Violent New Way to Kill Viruses (No Sanitizer Needed)
It sounds crazy. But does it work?
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Print Collector/Contributor/Getty Images Researchers Looked Inside Egyptian Mummies Without Unwrapping Them. Here’s What They Found.
They can see so deeply that they can identify diseases and even study mummification techniques, all without physically opening the remains.
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Cavan Images/Chris Ross/Getty Images Scientists Are Electrocuting Lobsters (But There’s a Pretty Good Reason)
This is going to stop almost no one from eating lobster, but it does complicate things.
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Westend61/Getty Images Scientists Gave Salmon Cocaine. The Reason Why Is Even Crazier.
Scientists dosed young salmon with cocaine to mimic real-world pollution, and the results suggest the obvious.
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Kevin Key/Slworking/Getty Images The Lyrid Meteor Shower Is Peaking Tonight, and the Viewing Conditions Are Shockingly Good
The lyrid meteor shower peaks Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, and this year the sky is staying nice and dark.
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Roberto Machado Noa/Getty Images NASA Wants to See What Happens When You Start a Fire On the Moon
NASA wants to start a fire under lunar gravity just to see what happens. And maybe learn a thing or two about putting out a space fire.
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Charles Harker/Getty Images This Cemetery Has Been Hiding Millions of Residents for Almost 100 Years
Forget ghosts, this New York cemetery has been hiding a massive underground bee metropolis since at least the 1930s.
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Nazar Abbas Photography/Getty Images Scientists Found a Strange Way to Curb Your Junk Food Cravings
The term “food porn” is a much more appropriate label than we once thought.
