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Bizarre dino fossil reveals a lizard swallowed whole

Jul. 11, 2019
Blinding Nemo: Artificial lights prevent clownfish eggs from hatching

Jul. 10, 2019
Ploonets are real. Now, we might be able to find them

Jul. 9, 2019
Sorry gardeners, plants aren’t conscious

Jul. 8, 2019
Giant cometlike object is not an alien ship, astronomers confirm

Jul. 2, 2019
Yellow jacket ‘super nests’ are back in Alabama

Jul. 1, 2019
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