Hunting Mushrooms, and What Makes Some Glow in the Dark
Scientists may have had more luck tracking down how some fungi glow than you may have hunting bioluminescent mushrooms, a reporter discovered.
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6 Bots That Deliver Science and Serendipity on Twitter
Not all bots on Twitter are out to spam, hack or misinform you. These science-themed bots dole out humor, factual information and galactic perspective.
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If Mars Is Colonized, We May Not Need to Ship In the Bricks
A new study suggests the material humanity needs to one day construct structures on Mars may already exist within the red planet’s desolate soil.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dove inside Saturn’s rings for the first time this week.
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CreditSergei Zelensky/The Russian Academy of Sciences No Bones About It: Scientists Recover Ancient DNA From Cave Dirt
With a new technique, German researchers isolated Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA from sediment alone, opening new possibilities in archaeology.
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CreditSpencer Platt/Getty Images Mass Die-Off of Whales in Atlantic Is Being Investigated
Officials are seeking the reason for an “unusual mortality event” that has left 41 humpback whales dead since early 2016 from North Carolina to Maine.
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CreditLudovic Orlando/Natural History Museum of Denmark/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Ancient Horse DNA Shows Scythian Warriors Were Adept Domesticators
Modern genetic tools have provided new details of how domestication changes animals as they become entwined with humans.
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CreditTom Deméré/San Diego Natural History Museum Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims
If early humans smashed mastodon bones found in California in 1992, scientists will have to rethink how humans came to the Americas.
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CreditCaity Fares for The New York Times As Rains Ease in the West, Cactuses Shine Brighter Than Ever
Never has there been a better time to appreciate the gritty, bizarre charm of these prickly natives.
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CreditJustin Sullivan/Getty Images Some Surprising Dog Breeds Have Ancient American Heritage
A new study of 161 breeds traces some ancestry back to the Americas of 10,000 years ago.
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CreditKathleen Benison What Moves Gravel-Size Gypsum Crystals Around the Desert?
The large crystals, and perhaps life forms within, may be scattered around by a whirlwind that a geologist calls a gravel devil.
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Researchers think 3-D printing may make it cheaper and easier to create glass objects, from skyscraper facades to tiny devices used in research.
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CreditMarvin Altamia This Is a Giant Shipworm. You May Wish It Had Stayed In Its Tube.
It’s actually a clam, it lives on sulfur and researchers have studied a living specimen for the first time.
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CreditJulianne Steers Silver Fish Surf the Waves to Spawn on California Beaches
It is peak season for grunion runs, when the fish race onto shore to mate and leave eggs that will develop under inches of sand.
