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How the Woolly Bear Caterpillar Turns into a Popsicle to Survive the Winter

Kate Furby: Some caterpillars have evolved with antifreeze in their body cavities, allowing them to become cater-Popsicles to survive cold winters.…

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Colliding Dwarf Galaxies Reveal a Glimpse of the Early Universe

For the first time, astronomers think they’ve spotted two pairs of merging dwarf galaxies, with each pair sporting a duo…

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Record-Breaking Boreal Fires May Be a Climate ‘Time Bomb’

CLIMATEWIRE | Boreal forest fires in northern Eurasia and North America — including parts of Canada, Alaska and Siberia — spewed…

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Humans Started Riding Horses 5,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests

We may never know when a human jumped on a horse and rode off into the sunset for the first…

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Lab-Leak Intelligence Reports Aren’t Scientific Conclusions

Intelligence reports have a checkered history. They have recently seized center stage in the debate over the origin of the…

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We Must Stop Treating Grasslands as Wastelands

As a research scholar at the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, I once monitored birds that inhabited tall…

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The Most Boring Number in the World Is …

What is your favorite number? Many people may have an irrational number in mind, such as pi (π), Euler’s number…

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What Can We Do to Make Sure the FAA and Southwest Airlines Fiascos Never Happen Again?

Perhaps unknowingly, airline passengers who lived through the outage of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Notice to Air Systems (NOTAM)…

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NASA’s Asteroid-Bashing DART Mission Was Wildly Successful

Last September, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft smashed into an asteroid, deliberately altering the rock’s trajectory through space…

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We Must Prevent a New Nuclear Arms Race

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s calamitous invasion of Ukraine has killed at least tens of thousands, displaced millions, and disrupted countless…

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