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Wildfire smoke affects animals in unique ways. Scientists are trying to understand it

The new field of "smoke ecology" examines how wildfire smoke perturbs wild places and animals — and what might be done to prevent its worst mayhem.

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How did this chonky beaver stop a tube station from flooding?

"During heavy rainfall, the urban area around this park used to routinely flood, including the local tube station. The council had already planned

New purple fabric cools skin by 14°F and keeps working after 50 washes

The new purple fabric stays up to 11.2 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than conventional purple cotton while reflecting 87.6 percent of sunlight.

Some Fish in the Great Lakes Might Be More Than 400 Years Old, a Study Suggests, Outliving Around 15 Generations of Humans

Lake sturgeon may be among the longest-living vertebrates, second only to Greenland sharks, according to recent research. However, scientists note that follow-up work is necessary to clarify the species’ life span

Popular Science

Opera singers and shrieking lemurs share vocalization strategies

The world’s only known signing lemur needs to make calls that can travel through the thick rainforest.

Do birds enjoy flying? Scientists asked cockatoos

Flying leads to positive emotions and optimism in Galahs

Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected

An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging common assumptions about screen use. Researchers say the key may be balancing physical activity with screen activities that encourage learning, creativity, and active thinking.

ZME Science

India Is Building a Power Plant That Uses the Difference Between Warm and Cold Seawater to Make Electricity Around the Clock

India’s Lakshadweep project could show whether ocean heat can deliver reliable power and fresh water.

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How to make a hardware store electric motor

With a battery, some copper wire, a magnet, and two paper clips, a simple electric motor can come to life. After a visit to the hardware store to gather

ZME Science

Elephants May Hear Messages Through Ground Vibrations From More Than 10 Kilometers Away

Elephants may hear messages traveling through the ground from more than 10 kilometers away, thanks to massive ear bones and a muscle that can shut their ear canals.

ScienceAlert

Humans Can Learn to Echolocate in Just 10 Weeks, And It Rewires The Brain

Echolocation is a fascinating way that animals like bats and whales find their way around the world.

ScienceAlert

What's Wildfire Smoke Actually Doing to Your Body? Studies Show It Might Be Worse Than You Think

This past week, a child stood on the observation deck of Toronto's CN Tower and looked out at a city skyline blurred by haze.

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How does ‘magic’ basalt dust help plants grow faster and lock up more carbon?

In Llandovery, Wales, a large-scale nature research project is proving that there's a way to help trees grow faster and stronger, and store more carbon.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.

Stingless bees in Peru become the first insects with legal rights. Will it happen globally?

Two municipalities in the Peruvian Amazon have granted native stingless bees legal rights, opening the door for other regions to do the same.

Where on Earth Was This Fossil 200 Million Years Ago?

Researchers have created an open-access interface that turns present-day locations into ancient coordinates with near-desktop-level accuracy.

ScienceAlert

Mathematicians Reveal Why Humans Keep Becoming Cannibals

Cannibalism is something of a paradox: It's considered taboo and unacceptable, and yet the entire timeline of human history is dotted with records of the practice emerging.

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Mycorrhiaza in Motion: A 56-hour film first

"Imagine a lifeform with mind-bending characteristics. It can clone itself, fuse with others of its kind, and knit together whole environments with its

Live Science

'Shared cosmic experience': 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Apophis could be visible to 90% of Earth's population during ultraclose 2029 flyby, new maps reveal

Researchers predict that up to 7.6 billion people will be able to see the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis fly past Earth on April 13, 2029. The skyscraper-size space rock will come closer than some satellites, making it clearly visible to the naked eye.

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Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

"In days of old, when dragons roamed the land, fair maidens spent a great deal of time languishing in towers and devising ways to encounter young knights,

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The surprisingly wondrous lifecycle of Western toads in Oregon's High Cascades

What does it take for an animal to become a "central engine" of a food web? And how does one high-elevation lake in the Oregon Cascades produce enough

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Musical Gear Wonderlands: Interactive wooden sculptures by Ayumi Tsuchiya

"A rocking chair becomes a bench when turned upside down. A flower-shaped chair gently folds around the person sitting inside it. A seesaw becomes a

Popular Science

A vast world of rock-eating fungi lurks deep underneath the Great Lakes

Researchers discovered a vibrant ecosystem that is ‘dark, ancient, and almost entirely hidden’ from humans.

People Aren't Born as Righties or Lefties—They Develop Hand Dominance With Practice, a New Study Suggests

Humans do have a biological preference for using one side of their body, which might prime them for using limbs on that side for complex motor tasks like writing—and honing those skills over time

Open Culture

The Thai Beef Noodle Soup That Has Been Continuously Simmering for 52 Years

As Bangkok rises into the ranks of the world's great culinary destination cities, its restaurant scene caters to ever more well-heeled travelers. There, you can now visit establishments with not just one, and not just two, but three Michelin stars.

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The Voices of Bears Ears: Archaeologists tour Utah's national monument

"Layers of history and culture are visible on the landscape of Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. Thousands of fragile sites are spread

Triassic Inferno: Fires raged across Europe for thousands of years during past global warming

Fern savannahs were prone to large-scale burning, whereby the ferns themselves acted as the fuel that fanned the flames.

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Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

"In days of old, when dragons roamed the land, fair maidens spent a great deal of time languishing in towers and devising ways to encounter young knights,

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How does ‘magic’ basalt dust help plants grow faster and lock up more carbon?

In Llandovery, Wales, a large-scale nature research project is proving that there's a way to help trees grow faster and stronger, and store more carbon.

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Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite

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How do bulging baobab trees survive Madagascar’s dry spiny forest?

In the spiny forests of southwest Madagascar, where The Central Highlands block most moisture and annual rainfall can fall below 20 inches, plants and

ScienceAlert

Hidden Web of Fungus Inside Earth Could Reach The Sun a Billion Times

The ground beneath your feet is not quiescent.

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New paint-on health sensors are as fun as face paint

The colorful and customizable wearables can monitor heart rate, brain activity, and more.

Boing Boing

Turkmenistan's "Gates of Hell" crater is finally going out after 54 years

Turkmenistan's Darvaza crater burned for 54 years. Methane capture wells have cut its fire by 75% in three years.

ZME Science

What's It Like to Be a Fish? Anglers 100 Years Ago Used Underwater Cameras and the Photos Look Surprisingly Surreal

The quest to understand why fish bite produced some of the strangest photos in fishing history.

The Conversation

Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation

Changes that took millions of years can now happen in a matter of decades, and this accelerated rhythm can be destructive, with dangerous consequences for the planet

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Elmo and Kids Meet a Marine Biologist

How many legs does a spider crab have? How big are tiger shark and great white shark jaws? What does shark skin feel like? And what's on the underside of

ScienceAlert

The Only Thing Separating Monkey Geometry Skills From Ours Might Be Formal Education

If you've ever gone hiking and reached a fork in the trail, you may be confronted with two triangles: one pointing right, one pointing left.

Popular Science

Why do fireflies glow? It's more than butt goo.

These luminous beetles use light to flirt and fend off predators.

Removal of African elephants causes coextinction of dung beetles, study finds

Researchers in Kenya found that removing elephants from the landscape causes local extinction of dung beetles and a cascade of ecological harms.

ScienceAlert

There's a Volcano in Antarctica Spewing Gold Crystals Into The Atmosphere

Lava.

Scientists Say Love Follows Mathematical Patterns

By expanding dynamical systems theories to account for forgetting rates, attraction levels, and reaction patterns, math can now identify ‘relationship danger zones’.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing, read by LeVar Burton for Juneteenth's 155th anniversary

Narrated by LeVar Burton and illustrated by artist Loveis Wise, the poem Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson powers this Google Doodle in

ScienceAlert

For The First Time Ever, an Atmosphere Has Been Detected Around A Rocky 'Habitable Zone' Planet

As the famous lullaby attests, the diamond-like stars above have always been our companions.

Open Culture

Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online

Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.

ZME Science

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Becoming a Bizarre Floating Ecosystem

Coastal animals are creating an unexpected new community.

ZME Science

This Weird 20-Legged Robot Moves Like Nothing Else on Earth and It Could Change How We Build Machines

Argus defies traditional robotics by being guided exclusively by mathematical symmetry rather than biological design.