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Mint Images/Getty Images Are America’s Insects Dying Off?
Scientists are having a really hard time determining which insects in North America are at risk of extinction.
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Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images NASA’s Asteroid-Smashing Test Worked Even Better Than Expected
The impact didn’t just alter the asteroid’s local orbit. It slightly shifted the entire system’s path around the Sun.
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The Conversation Marsupial Found Alive After Being Thought Dead for 6,000 Years
The latest animal to rise from the not-so-dead is the Lazarus taxa. Researchers re-added its name to the list of creatures that are still alive.
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Dawam Syah/500px/Getty Images Is the Chaos of Space Hiding Alien Signals From Us?
New research suggests that the universe might be scrambling potential alien calls before they ever reach Earth.
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JNemchinova/Getty Images Scientists Are Growing Hair Follicles in a Lab, and It Might Fix Your Bald Head
Researchers have successfully grown functional hair follicles in a lab that naturally cycle through periods of growth.
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Dario Argenti/Getty Images Cockroaches Become Cannibals When They Fall in Cockroach Love
Wood-feeding cockroaches put their own twist on courtship: they consummate their monogamous relationship by eating each other’s wings.
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Vicki Jauron/Babylon and Beyond Photography/Getty Images Are Orcas Cannibalizing Each Other? Chewed Up Fins Are Washing Ashore.
Scientists say the grisly finds could point to scavenging, infighting, or something even darker in the ocean food chain.
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Photo: Petr Kolb / Getty Images Do Chimpanzees Know Crystal Magic, or Are They Just Really Into Jewelry?
Maybe the chimps are into new age spirituality.
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Photo: Carol Yepes / Getty Images Did Scientists Crack the Code on Staying Sharp Until You Die?
What if we could all be superagers?
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Illustration: Denis-Art / Getty Images Scientists Finally Found Something That Can Kill a Tardigrade
Adorable, freaky, and indestructible. Well, almost.
