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Black Holes Might Catapult Rogue Supernovas Into Space

Like being fired from a slingshot at 4.5 million miles an hour

A hawthorn tree in the moonlight

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Plants Might Move with the Moon Just as the Oceans Do with Tides

One researcher calls it the “leaftide”

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This Pesticide Doesn’t Kill Spiders, But It Does Mess With Their Heads

Just because a chemical isn’t lethal doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous to other insects

Leaf-cutter ants tending a fungus garden in Guadaloupe

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Future Antibiotics for Humans Could Come From Ant Fungus Gardens

A unique symbiotic relationship exists between leaf-cutter ants, fungi and bacteria

An image of the Italian Alps, snapped in June by the ESA's Sentinel-2, could be used in biodiversity studies.

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Why Satellites Are a Biologist’s Best Friend

From tracking penguins to coral reefs, satellites are changing the way scientists study ecology

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Is Chocolate Milk the Next Sports Drink?

It all comes down to cows

The leading hemisphere of Dione shows tectonic faults running across its surface, along with craters, in false color, which was produced by an image in the ultraviolet, green, and infrared wavelengths taken by the Cassini Orbiter. The subtle variations in color may be caused by fine ice particles.

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Today, Cassini Will Say Goodbye to Saturn’s Moon Dione

It’s curtains for the NASA mission’s close relationship with the satellite

A solar flare erupts from the Sun in 2012.

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When Will the Next Solar Superflare Hit Earth?

The year 2209 just got a lot scarier

Lightning strikes near the U.S. Capitol building

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Lightning Strikes Can Change Rocks’ Atomic Structure

New research suggests that rock crystals melt under the intense force and heat of lightning

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Cadavers Are Teaching Doctors to Be More Empathetic

By getting to know the person behind the cadaver, new doctors are honing the skills they’ll use on living patients

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Modern Life Could Be Making Dementia More Common

Dementia is affecting people more and earlier than ever before — but is pollution the culprit?

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The European Space Agency Wants to Build a Moon Village

Someday soon, the hot new European vacation spot could have a great view of the planet Earth

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Dinosaurs May Have Lived (and Died) Among Ancient Daisies

Triceratops loves me, Triceratops loves me not…

Dense smoke rises as fire engines arrive at the blast site after the deadly explosions in Binhai New Area in Tianjin, China.

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It’s Strangely Difficult to Measure Big Explosions

But is it time for a makeover?

A "kissing bug," the insect whose bite can transmit the parasite that causes Chagas disease

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Why Infectious Tropical Diseases Are Returning to America

Climate, geography and economy are just a few risk factors

Female saiga at the Black Earth Nature Reserve in Russia in 2009

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What Killed Over 134,000 Endangered Antelopes?

Experts are closer to an answer

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Why Coffee Makes Some People Poop

It’s not the caffeine

Engineers at Cambridge University created a robot that could build and improve on other robots, in an artificial form of natural selection.

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Watch a Robot Evolve

It’s the mother of all robots

Acropora species, like those pictured above in Malaysia, seem to be targeted by a disease that destroys coral tissue.

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A Mysterious Disease Is Killing Corals

Researchers still haven’t cracked the mystery of “white syndrome”

Overwintering monarch butterflies

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Scientists Are Still Baffled by Monarch Migration

When it comes to declining winter butterfly populations, something just doesn’t add up

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