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A hummingbird sticks out its tongue in Ecuador.

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Hummingbird Tongues Are Pumps, Not Straws

A tiny, quick pump mechanism lets birds slurp up nectar at a rate of 14 licks per second

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Scientists Just Identified a Pinkie That’s Almost 2 Million Years Old

And it could be a major evolutionary breakthrough

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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”

"Flatties" might be more aptly nicknamed "fliers" for their ability to glide to safety should they lose their grip in tree canopies.

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Gliding Spiders Found Falling From Tropical Trees

Flat-bodied spiders that live in the rainforest strike a Superman pose to take control of their free-falls

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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

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Is Chocolate Milk the Next Sports Drink?

It all comes down to cows

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

A paralyzed subject moves his legs with the help of transcutaneous stimulation.

Five Paralyzed Men Move Their Legs Again in a UCLA Study

As electrodes on the skin stimulated their spines, the study participants made “step-like” motions

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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A New Cooking Oil Can Be Reused 80 Times

Could it make for better French fries and disrupt a worldwide black market at the same time?

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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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Dinosaurs May Have Lived (and Died) Among Ancient Daisies

Triceratops loves me, Triceratops loves me not…

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

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”

The larger Pacific striped octopus uses unique prankster shoulder-tapping techniques to lure shrimp prey within arms' reach.

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Tropical Octopus Definitely Mates Beak-to-Beak

Larger Pacific striped octopus couples engage in a host of behaviors unheard of among other octopuses

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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Modern Milk is Kind of Miraculous

…at least in the USA

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