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The definition of planet is still a sore point – especially among Pluto fans Aug 24 2021 6:00 AM In the 15 years since Pluto lost its planet status, scientists have continued to use the definition that works for them. READ MORE   Climate change made Europe's flash floods in July more likely Aug 23 2021 6:01 PM The deadly July floods in Belgium and Germany bear the fingerprints of human-caused climate change, scientists say. READ MORE   A giant tortoise was caught stalking, killing and eating a baby bird Aug 23 2021 11:00 AM Video captures the first documented instance of a tortoise hunting another animal. READ MORE   Here's how cool a star can be and still achieve lasting success Aug 23 2021 8:00 AM The dividing line between successful stars and failed ones is a surface temperature of about 1,200° to 1,400° Celsius, a new study reports. READ MORE   Everyone maps numbers in space. But why don't we all use the same directions? Aug 23 2021 6:00 AM The debate over whether number lines are innate or learned obscures a more fundamental question: Why do we map numbers to space in the first place? READ MORE   50 years ago, physicists thought they found the W boson. They hadn't Aug 20 2021 10:00 AM Fifty years after a false-alarm discovery, physicists have caught the W boson and are using it to unravel mysteries of particle physics. READ MORE   More Recent Headlines How fossilization preserved a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab's brain Aug 20 2021 8:00 AM A 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab's brain was preserved in clay, thanks to an uncommon fossilization process that protected the fragile neural tissues. READ MORE   'Ghost games' spotlight the psychological effect fans have on referees Aug 20 2021 6:00 AM Soccer teams won fewer games and received more fouls when playing at home during the 2019–2020 season, when many fans were absent, than before the pandemic. READ MORE   These baby greater sac-winged bats babble to learn their mating songs Aug 19 2021 2:00 PM Greater sac-winged bat pups babble their way through learning their rich vocal repertoire, similar to how human infants babble before speaking. READ MORE   How coronavirus vaccines still help people who already had COVID-19 Aug 19 2021 9:34 AM Coronavirus vaccines give the immune system of previously infected people a boost, probably giving those people better protection against new variants. READ MORE   See some of the most intriguing photos from NASA's Perseverance rover so far Aug 19 2021 6:00 AM Six months ago, Perseverance landed on the Red Planet. Here's what the rover has been observing. READ MORE   With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone Aug 18 2021 2:06 PM A National Ignition Facility experiment spawned nuclear fusion reactions that released nearly as much energy as was used to ignite them. READ MORE   Haiti's citizen seismologists helped track its devastating quake in real time Aug 18 2021 12:25 PM Two scientists explain how citizen scientists and their work could help provide a better understanding of Haiti's seismic hazards. READ MORE   How extreme heat from climate change distorts human behavior Aug 18 2021 9:00 AM As temperatures rise, violence and aggression go up while focus and productivity decline. The well off can escape to cool spaces; the poor cannot. READ MORE   A well-known wildflower turns out to be a secret carnivore Aug 18 2021 6:00 AM A species of false asphodel wildflower snags prey with gluey, enzyme-secreting hairs, leaving a trail of insect corpses on its flowering stem. READ MORE   New studies hint that the coronavirus may be evolving to become more airborne Aug 17 2021 3:48 PM More coronavirus RNA is in fine aerosols than in larger droplets, but masks can reduce the amount of virus in the air. READ MORE

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