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Slo-Mo Footage Shows How Scorpions Strike
Using high speed cameras, researchers uncovered the defensive patterns used by scorpions, including the super-fast death stalker
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Watch SpaceX’s Recycled Rocket Stick Its Landing
The reused Falcon 9 booster rocket may usher in an era of cheaper and more frequent trips into space
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Europe’s Only Known Cavefish Discovered in Germany
Genetic analyses suggest that the cave loach speedily adapted to its lightless habitat
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France Wants You to Lie on Your Back for 60 Days in the Name of Space Research
But only if you’re a man
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Now Everyone Can Track Yosemite’s Bears Online
The park is displaying delayed GPS data on a new website to stop curious humans from scouting out the creatures in real time
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30-Million-Year-Old Tick Full of Monkey Blood Found in Ancient Amber
Scientists think the tick was plucked from a primate before being dropped in a puddle of sticky tree resin
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Brief Vending Machine Delay Helps People Make Better Snack Choices
When a vending machine withheld junky snacks for 25 seconds, people were slightly more likely to choose a healthier option
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Proposed Test Heats Up the Debate on Solar Geoengineering
Harvard scientists are moving ahead with plans to investigate using particles to reflect some of the sun’s radiation
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Manatees Move From Endangered to Threatened
But conservationists say the species still faces significant threats
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These Tropical Fish Have Opioids in Their Fangs
The point isn’t to relieve pain—it’s to kill
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How 148 Tornadoes in One Day in 1974 Changed Emergency Preparedness
The “super outbreak” flattened towns and killed and injured thousands, all with little warning and in the space of 24 hours
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How Agent Orange Turned This American Small Town Into a Toxic Waste-Ridden Deathtrap
“Walking into the houses, many of them were like people had just simply stood up, walked out and never come back”
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A Japanese Fleet Killed Over 300 Whales This Season
The creatures were supposedly collected for the sake of research
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Gold Miners Kept Their Sourdough Starters Alive By Cuddling Them
San Francisco-area miners used sourdough starters as a replacement for commercial leavening agents
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Nanocars Will Race Across (a Very, Very Tiny Bit of) France
Ladies and gentlemen, start your molecules
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Researchers Spot Giant, Deep-Sea Octopus Munching on an Unusual Snack
The cephalopod was chowing down on a jellyfish—long thought unimportant in the food web
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The Campaign Is On to Save the Natural History Collections of a Louisiana University
The school is displacing millions of specimens in favor of a new track
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Watch a Baby Bald Eagle Hatch in Real Time
Things are getting serious for the world’s most famous bald eagles
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New Device Allows Paralyzed Man to Move His Arm With His Mind
The brain implant bypasses the patient’s injured spinal cord, allowing him to eat and drink on his own
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NASA Launches the Galaxy’s Most Glorious Space Database
Now you can easily peruse more than 140,000 of the agency’s photos, videos and visualizations
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