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High-Elevation Hummingbirds Evolved a Temperature Trick

If a hummingbird has ever visited your garden, you've no doubt seen it flit from flower to flower, hovering mid-air,…

5 years ago

This ‘Small World’ Is Packed with Animated Beauty

In 1665 British scientist Robert Hooke published his book Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made with Magnifying…

5 years ago

COVID-19 Dreams, Synchronicity and Visitors from Another Solar System

Have you been sleeping well this year? If not, you're not alone. Nightmares about COVID-19—fears of being in crowded spaces,…

5 years ago

Global Biodiversity Is in Free Fall

Global efforts to address the steep, ongoing loss of biodiversity through a series of specified targets have failed, according to…

5 years ago

How to Do Better for Your Middle School Student

The French call them “the ugly years”: that awkward, searing time of physical change and overwhelming emotion summed up by…

5 years ago

COVID-19’s Other Unnecessary Death Toll

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our…

5 years ago

Mail-Sorting Machines Are Crucial for the U.S. Postal Service

This summer the American Postal Workers Union filed a grievance against the U.S. Postal Service over the agency’s plans to…

5 years ago

Why Pet Pigs Are More like Wolves Than Dogs

It's a classic television trope: Timmy has fallen down a well! Lassie can't save him herself, so she runs to…

5 years ago

Coronavirus Vaccine U.K. Trial Restarts, But Scientists Question Lack of Transparency

The UK trial of a leading coronavirus vaccine, which was abruptly halted last week because of safety concerns, restarted on Saturday after…

5 years ago

Why Pet Pigs Are More Like Wolves Than Like Dogs

It's a classic television trope: Timmy has fallen down a well! Lassie can't save him herself, so she runs to…

5 years ago