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09/22/2022

After eons of isolation, these desert fish flub social cues

Sep 21 2022 11:39 AM

Pahrump poolfish flunked a fear test, but maybe they're scared of other things.

A protogalaxy in the Milky Way may be our galaxy's original nucleus

Sep 21 2022 7:00 AM

Millions of ancient stars spanning about 18,000 light-years at the Milky Way's heart are the kernel around which the galaxy grew, researchers say.

Drumming woodpeckers use similar brain regions as songbirds

Sep 20 2022 2:00 PM

Woodpeckers drum on trees and other objects using brain regions similar to those that songbirds use to sing, suggesting a common evolutionary origin for the complex behaviors.

Fossil finds put gibbons in Asia as early as 8 million years ago

Sep 20 2022 7:00 AM

Specimens from China raise questions about the evolutionary ID of an even older ape tooth from India.

Video shows the first fox known to fish for food

Sep 19 2022 9:00 AM

Big fish in shallow water are easy pickings for one fox — the first of its kind known to fish, a study finds.

This environmentally friendly quantum sensor runs on sunlight

Sep 19 2022 7:00 AM

Quantum sensors often rely on power-hungry lasers to make measurements. A new quantum magnetometer uses sunlight to measure magnetic fields instead.

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Here's what triggers giant honeybees to do the wave

Sep 16 2022 7:00 AM

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5 people with lupus are in remission after CAR-T cell treatment

Sep 15 2022 3:38 PM

More than six months after CAR-T cell treatment, five patients are in remission and have functional immune systems.

Looking for a job? Lean more on weak ties than strong relationships

Sep 15 2022 2:00 PM

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Saturn's rings and tilt might have come from one missing moon

Sep 15 2022 2:00 PM

The hypothetical moon, dubbed Chrysalis, could have helped tip the planet over before getting shredded to form the rings, researchers suggest.

Poliovirus is spreading in New York. Here's what you need to know

Sep 14 2022 3:56 PM

With signs of poliovirus spreading in a handful of counties in New York, unvaccinated people could be at risk of paralytic polio.

Humans may have started tending animals almost 13,000 years ago

Sep 14 2022 2:00 PM

Remnants from an ancient fire pit in Syria suggest that hunter-gatherers were burning dung as fuel by the end of the Old Stone Age.

Falling objects in orbit show Einstein was right — again

Sep 14 2022 10:00 AM

For more than two years, a pair of metal cylinders fell at the same rate in space, confirming the equivalence principle, a key tenet of general relativity.

How Kenyans help themselves and the planet by saving mangrove trees

Sep 14 2022 7:00 AM

Communities in Kenya took action to restore their coastal mangrove forests, reaping economic and environmental benefits. Others are following suit.

Not all camouflage is equal. Here are prey animals' best options

Sep 13 2022 7:01 PM

When prey masquerade as innocuous objects in the environment, they slow detection from predators by nearly 300 percent.

50 years ago, physicists got a whiff of what glues together protons

Sep 13 2022 9:00 AM

In 1972, particle smashups hinted at the gluon, which we now know not only holds together the innards of the proton, but also makes up more than a third of its mass.

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