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Cicadas high on fungus drugs won’t stop mating

Jun. 27, 2019
Could a gut bacterium boost athletic performance?

Jun. 25, 2019
What happens if you cross a narwhal with a beluga? You get a narluga

Jun. 21, 2019
Watch this robot fish swim, thanks to artificial blood

Jun. 20, 2019
New drug for sickle cell shows promise

Jun. 14, 2019
Baby pterosaurs may have taken to the skies straight after hatching

Jun. 12, 2019
Is your stress rubbing off on your dog?

Jun. 11, 2019
These vampire birds have something in common with vampire bats, and it’s not just a taste for blood

Jun. 11, 2019
Americans eat more than 50,000 tiny pieces of plastic every year

Jun. 5, 2019
Have physicists found a way to save Schrödinger’s cat?

Jun. 3, 2019
A drop of stem cells restores mice’s sense of smell

May. 31, 2019
Ancient Egyptians feasted on watermelons, too, according to find in ancient tomb

May. 22, 2019
This bird lost the ability to fly twice on the same island, thousands of years apart

May. 14, 2019
The lost plains of Doggerland emerge from the North Sea

May. 9, 2019
The oceans contain nearly 200,000 kinds of viruses

Apr. 25, 2019
Gene therapy works for bubble boy disease

Apr. 19, 2019
Scientists restore some cellular functions in dead pig brains

Apr. 18, 2019
NASA planet hunter finds its first Earth-size world

Apr. 17, 2019
Brain scans find CTE-linked protein in living former NFL players

Apr. 12, 2019
‘Wall of death’ that entombed Pompeii surfed a cushion of air to reach top speed

Apr. 9, 2019
Scientists discover a frog with glowing bones

Apr. 2, 2019
Earlier springtime disrupts insect and bird lives—and it’s worse than expected

Apr. 1, 2019
Culling invasive predators could save 9.4% of the world’s at-risk species

Mar. 28, 2019
Death Star ice cube reveals how the world’s oldest fossils may have formed

Mar. 26, 2019