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The butts of these blowfly larvae mimic termite faces

The young of a mysterious blowfly species look — and smell — like the termites t...

Why some chaos-seekers just want to watch the world burn

A political scientist explains how a confluence of personality traits and percei...

Even desert cities could pull drinking water from the air 

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a year...

Biological sex is not as simple as male or female

A recent Trump executive order defines sex based on gamete size. But the order o...

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Fog collection could alleviate water stress in desert c...

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a year...

Squishy materials reveal new physics of static electric...

The charge transferred when identical objects touch depends on their history, sc...

Earth had new, temporary radiation rings last year

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 20...

NIH research grant cuts could deal a biting blow to cru...

The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. B...

A weird ice that may form on alien planets has finally ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice,...

Giant camel-like creatures lived thousands of years lon...

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 yea...

‘It felt like dread.’ Hear what severe depression can d...

In the second episode of The Deep End, listeners hear what it’s like to live wit...

Giant camel-like creatures lived thousands of years lon...

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 yea...

‘Uncertain, anxious, fearful.’ That’s the mood at 2025’...

Scientists are losing funding and even their jobs under the new Trump administra...

Who are the indirect costs of NIH research? We talked to 3

The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. B...

How a mushroom coral goes for a walk without legs

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging ...