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Greenland’s Glaciers Are Hemorrhaging Ice, Best Seen By Photos from Space
Satellites snap pictures of Greenland’s glaciers, which a new study shows are vanishing at an accelerated pace, helping to spike global sea levels
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Sugar Cube-Sized Robotic Ants Mimic Real Foraging Behavior
Researchers use tiny robots to study how ants navigate a labyrinth of networks, from the nest to the food and back again
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Research Shows That True Fame Lasts Longer Than 15 Minutes
Contrary to the cliché, an analysis of news articles over the years shows that celebrity has lasting power
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A Survey of the 161 Bacterial Families That Live on Your Fruits and Veggies
The first-ever sequencing of the “produce microbiome” reveals that grapes, peaches and sprouts host the largest diversity of harmless bacteria
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Landslide “Quakes” Give Clues to the Location and Size of Debris Flows
Scientists can now quickly assess characteristics of a landslide soon after slopes fail, based on its seismic signature
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The Otherworldly Calm of Wolfgang Laib’s Glowing Beeswax Room
A German contemporary artist creates a meditative space—lined with beeswax—at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
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Warning: Living Alone May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Being socially isolated increases your chance of death—but not because you’re feeling depressed over being lonely
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Sea Monkeys, Ferns and Frozen Frogs: Nature’s Very Own Resurrecting Organisms
As Easter draws near, we celebrate creatures that seemingly die and then come back to life
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How Digital Devices Change the Rules of Etiquette
Should sending “Thank you” emails and leaving voice mails now be considered bad manners? Some think texting has made it so
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Brown Polar Bears, Beluga-Narwhals and Other Hybrids Brought to You by Climate Change
Animals with shrinking habitats are interbreeding, temporarily boosting populations but ultimately hurting species’ survival
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Video: This Lizard-Inspired Robot Can Scamper Across Sand
It’s a product of the emerging field of terradynamics, which studies the movement of vehicles across shifting surfaces
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Caleb Cain Marcus’ Photos of Glaciers on a Disappearing Horizon
With a surprisingly light touch, the New York City-based photographer instills feelings of solitude in his images of massive glaciers
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Video: This Mini 3D Display Could Show up on Next Generation Smartphones
The new technology can be packed into a tiny space, requires no glasses and can project images and video in full color
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UPDATED: Has the Voyager 1 Probe Finally Left the Solar System?
New data indicate the spacecraft, launched in 1977, has neared interstellar space, more than 11 billion miles away from the Sun
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Untangling the Mysterious Genetic Tentacles of the Giant Squid
Contrary to prior speculation about the elusive creatures, all giant squid belong to a single species and they all share very similar genetics
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After 17 Years, the Northeast Is About to Be Blanketed by a Swarm of Cicadas
An inch and a half long with bright red eyes, the swarm of Brood II cicadas is coming
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B.F. Skinner: The Man Who Taught Pigeons to Play Ping-Pong and Rats to Pull Levers
One of behavioral psychology’s most famous scientists was also one of the quirkiest
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Haiku Highlight the Existential Mysteries of Planetary Science
Conference-goers put into verse the ethane lakes on a Saturn moon, the orbital paths of Martian moons and a megachondrule’s mistaken identity
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Prehistoric Human Skull Shows Signs of Inbreeding
A 100,000-year-old skull has a hole that reflects genetic mutations from inbreeding—likely a common behavior for our ancestors
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How Do Roosters Know When to Crow?
Their internal circadian rhythms keep them crowing on schedule, even when the lights are turned off
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