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SpaceX Catches Starship Rocket Booster for the First Time Ever as it Returns to Earth After Launch

11 November 2024

Environmental solutions from the amazing world of fantastic fungi

12 August 2022

Butterflies just love ants ---.

12 September 2018

First known manta ray nursery in Florida and new species news!

20 June 2018

Models and mimics are marvels in SE Asia

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Lounging lizards and snake bytes

featured Lounging lizards and snake bytes

The parrot snake is a common Central and South American colubrid (grass snake family); Credit: © Andrew Snyder The most diverse terrestrial vertebrates could be the squamate reptiles that somehow...

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Two disasters may have killed the dinosaurs

Two disasters may have killed the dinosaurs

Excavation of a large ammonite on James Ross Island in Antarctica; Credit: © Thomas Tobin/UW Dinosaurs may have died out after two catastrophic events rather than just one, say American...

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More power from spinach

More power from spinach

A biohybrid solar cell; Credit: © Amrutur Anilkumar, Vanderbilt Universit American university researchers have discovered a method of combining the photosynthetic protein in spinach that turns light into electrochemical energy...

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The survival and symbiosis of corals

The survival and symbiosis of corals

Moorea Massive Porites; Credit: © Hollie Putnam Talk of places like Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia and you tend to think of Pacific coral reefs and the habitat they create....

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Carbon dioxide could be turned into fuel, say scientists

Carbon dioxide could be turned into fuel, say scientists

Ralstonia eutropha bacteria in culture; Image courtesy of Christopher Brigham American scientists are trying to trick a soil bacterium into making fuel. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are...

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Nuclear power from uranium in seawater gets closer

Nuclear power from uranium in seawater gets closer

Seawater image; Credit: © Shutterstock A 40-year-old quest of obtaining nuclear power by extracting uranium from seawater, is getting closer, scientists believe. Seawater holds at least four billion tons of...

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Great White versus Wave Glider

Great White versus Wave Glider

Great White; Credit: © Shutterstock Dr. Block and her team are on a mission to create a "wired ocean" where live feeds of predator movements are relayed by a series...

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