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How Mosquitoes Sneak Away After Feasting on Your Blood
Special wingbeats and long legs help mosquitoes take off without getting smushed
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Stephen Hawking’s PhD Thesis Goes Online, Crashing Internet Servers
After less than a day on the internet, it racked up 60,000 downloads
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The Search for Habitable Worlds Just Got a Boost
More realistic simulations of the atmosphere of far-flung planets are helping researchers sort out the best candidates for possible life
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Five Things to Know About the Yellowstone Supervolcano
There’s no need to worry: It’s unlikely it will blow anytime soon
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Chemistry Nerds Rejoice—It’s Mole Day
Named for a unit of atomic particles, this decades-old quirky holiday seeks to raise enthusiasm for chemistry with cakes, crafts and a lot of bad jokes
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Saber-toothed Cats May Have Co-Existed With Modern Humans
They also share an ancestor will all living cats
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One in Six Global Deaths Linked to Pollution
A new report suggests that pollution led to the deaths of nine million people in 2015
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Thousands of Turkish Frogs Rescued From Smugglers
A delicacy often exported to European countries, frogs are a tightly regulated commodity in the country
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Fido’s Making That Puppy Face on Purpose—He’s Trying to Tell You Something
A new study suggests dogs use their facial expressions to communicate
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Look Up: The Orionid Meteor Shower Will Streak Through Skies This Weekend
Bits of Halley’s Comet are raining down on Earth, and the show will peak in the wee hours of Saturday morning
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Over Three Quarters of Flying Insects Disappear From German Nature Preserves
A combination of habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change may be behind the dramatic three-decade decline
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Latest AI Teaches Itself to Play Go With No Human Help
DeepMind’s AlphaGo Zero taught itself how to play Go, becoming the greatest player in history in just 40 days
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All But Two Adélie Penguin Chicks Die in “Catastrophic” Breeding Season
A WWF official described it as “Tarantino does Happy Feet”
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First ‘Negative Emissions’ Plant Opens in Iceland, Turning Atmospheric CO2 Into Stone
The plant’s operators hope to halt the warming of the Earth, but many challenges remain for the plan to work on a large scale
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Tragedy and Beauty of Nature on Display in This Year’s Best Wildlife Photos
The 16 award-winning images range from whimsical birds to the tragic aftermath of a poaching raid
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Volcanic Eruptions Could Have Spurred Revolts in Ancient Egypt
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Contrary to popular belief, domestication has made dogs less likely to cooperate to get food than wolves
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How Ex-Hurricane Ophelia Turned Skies Red Over the U.K
In a year of crazy weather, the remnants of the massive storm headed toward the British Isles
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How Nicholas Culpeper Brought Medicine to the People
His 17th-century text is still in print today
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This Worm Hasn’t Had Sex in 18 Million Years
By fusing its chromosomes, the creature could essentially clone itself while still maintaining genetic variation
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