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01/26/2023

Fossils suggest early primates lived in a once-swampy Arctic

Jan 25 2023 2:00 PM

Teeth and jawbones found on Ellesmere Island, Canada, suggest that two early primate species migrated there 52 million years ago.

These shape-shifting devices melt and re-form thanks to magnetic fields

Jan 25 2023 11:55 AM

Miniature machines made of gallium embedded with magnetic particles can switch between solid and liquid states.

Procrastination may harm your health. Here's what you can do

Jan 25 2023 8:00 AM

Scientists have tied procrastination to mental and physical health problems. But don't panic if you haven't started your New Year's resolutions yet.

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Lots of Tatooine-like planets around binary stars may be habitable

Jan 24 2023 10:00 AM

A new simulation suggests that planets orbiting a pair of stars may be plentiful, and many of those worlds could be suitable for life.

A bird with a T. rex head may help reveal how dinosaurs became birds

Jan 24 2023 8:00 AM

The 120-million-year-old Cratonavis zhui, newly discovered in China, had a head like a theropod and body like a modern bird.

Some young sea spiders can regrow their rear ends

Jan 23 2023 3:13 PM

Juvenile sea spiders can regenerate nearly all of their bottom halves — including muscles and the anus — or make do without them.

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Earth's inner core may be reversing its rotation

Jan 23 2023 11:00 AM

In the past 13 years, the rotation of the planet's solid inner core may have temporarily stopped and then started to reverse direction.

A rare rabbit plays an important ecological role by spreading seeds

Jan 23 2023 10:00 AM

Rabbits aren't thought of as seed dispersers, but the Amami rabbit of Japan has now been recorded munching on a plant's seeds and pooping them out.

Rare earth elements could be pulled from coal waste

Jan 20 2023 8:00 AM

The scheme would provide valuable rare earth metals and help clean up coal mining's dirty legacy.

Recycling rare earth elements is hard. Science is trying to make it easier

Jan 20 2023 8:00 AM

As demand grows, scientists are inventing new — and greener — ways to recycle rare earth elements.

Chicken DNA is replacing the genetics of their ancestral jungle fowl

Jan 19 2023 2:00 PM

Up to half of modern jungle fowl genes have been inherited from domesticated chickens. That could threaten the wild birds' long-term survival.

New data show how quickly light pollution is obscuring the night sky

Jan 19 2023 2:00 PM

Tens of thousands of observations from citizen scientists spanning a decade show that the night sky is getting about 10 percent brighter every year.

Too much of this bacteria in the nose may worsen allergy symptoms

Jan 19 2023 9:00 AM

Hay fever sufferers have an overabundance of Streptococcus salivarius. The mucus-loving bacteria boost inflammation, causing an endlessly runny nose.

Want a 'Shrinky Dinks' approach to nano-sized devices? Try hydrogels

Jan 18 2023 9:00 AM

Patterning hydrogels with a laser and then shrinking them down with chemicals offers a way to make nanoscopic structures out of many materials.

Scientists have found the first known microbes that can eat only viruses

Jan 18 2023 7:00 AM

Lab experiments show that Halteria ciliates can chow down solely on viruses. Whether these "virovores" do the same in the wild is unclear.

These adorable Australian spike-balls beat the heat with snot bubbles

Jan 17 2023 7:01 PM

An echidna's snot bubbles coat the spiny critter's nose with moisture, which then evaporates and draws heat from the sinus, cooling the blood.

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