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Being able to control "clock neurons" could help with combatting jet lag and fatigue.

New Research

Scientists Discover “Reset” Button for Circadian Rhythm

Could a simple reboot turn exhaustion into a thing of the past?

New Research

These Dolphins Mourn Their Dead

A new study looks into a sad ritual at sea

The skittish cat was spotted in Uganda's Kibale National Park.

Cool Finds

Rare Cat Caught on Camera…Attacking a Monkey

Africa’s most elusive wild cat makes a rare daytime appearance

New Research

Why We Can Thank Bats for Bedbugs

Scientists have proven through genetics that bats were the first hosts to the pesky parasite before passing them on to ancient humans

New Research

How You Shop Can Reveal Your Identity to Thieves

Women are more easily identified from their shopping patterns than men

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Meet the Friendly Virus That Might Actually Be Good For You

Many people carry it, but it doesn’t make you sick and could actually fight against viruses like HIV and Ebola

The Hopkins' Rose nudibranch, or pink sea slug.

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What’s Causing California’s Bright Pink Sea Slug Bloom?

They might be fun to look at, but they’re not necessarily good news

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Scientists Finally Know How Baleen Whales Hear

A beached whale, a supercomputer, a scientific mystery solved

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There’s a Big Rift in Opinion Between Americans And Scientists

New study shows that citizens and scientists only agree some of the time

An artist’s interpretation of an alien planet and its star

New Research

Planets Formed Close to Their Stars Are Named for Vulcan, the Roman God of Fire

Closer to their stars than Mercury is to the Sun, these hot worlds deserve an explanation

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The Ohio Measles Outbreak Wasn’t Caused by “Anti-Vaxxers” But by an Amish Traveler

Blaming the anti-vaccination movement for an uptick in measles is oversimplification

Cool Finds

A 10,000-Year-Old Forest Has Been Discovered, And It’s Under Water

Ancient oak trees found on the bottom of the North Sea represent a prehistoric woodland that likely spanned thousands of acres

New Research

Why “Expensive” Medicines Might Actually Work Better

Perceived cost might influence drugs’ benefits

Yosemite National Parks "carnivore crew" spotted this rare Sierra Nevada red fox with a motion-sensitive camera.

Cool Finds

For the First Time in Almost a Century, a Rare Red Fox Was Seen at Yosemite

Cameras and “hair snares” could preserve a threatened Sierra species

Resin, similar to the kind shown here, is used by the newly discovered caterpillar to build its cocoon.

New Research

A Newly Discovered Caterpillar Makes a Deadly Fortress of Its Cocoon

Scientists have found a caterpillar in a Borneo forest that uses toxic tree resin to build an extra-safe home for its metamorphosis

New Research

Are You Binge-Watching Because You’re Depressed?

A new study found that people who were depressed binge-watched TV more—and used TV binges to deal with negative emotions

The garden center spider combs and pulls on its silk to create electricostatically-charged threads

New Research

Spiders Spin Electrically Charged Silk To Make It Sticky

The garden center spider doesn’t put sticky glue on its web; it uses a complex spinning process to build prey-snaring silk threads

An artist's illustration of Kepler-444 and its five planets

New Research

These Five Earth-sized Planets Are Super Old

Kepler-444 is 11.2 billion years old and its five planets could tell us about planet formation in the early universe

New Research

Sugar Is Causing Girls to Get Their Periods Sooner

Why shunning soda might help reduce premature puberty rates

Early Homo sapiens, a skull of which is shown here, may have coexisted with the primitive human whose jawbone was recently discovered by a fisherman off the coast of Taiwan

New Research

Did Fishermen Find Evidence of an Unknown Group of Primitive Humans?

A fossilized jawbone pulled from the seafloor near Taiwan may be from an ancient type of hominin new to science

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