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These Tiny, Beautiful Wasps Eat the Hearts Out of Cockroaches

Jewel wasps carve up cockroaches like jack-o’-lanterns in a way scientists have never seen before.

Old Faithful Is Boiling, Smelly and the Perfect Home for These Living Things

In one of Yellowstone National Park’s most well-known attractions, researchers discovered an extraordinary diversity of microbial life.

Chimpanzees Go Through Menopause, Too

For biologists, menopause is baffling. If natural selection favors genes that produce more descendants, why don’t women remain fertile their…

Billions of Years Ago, Venus May Have Had a Key Earthlike Feature

A new study makes the case that the solar system’s hellish second planet once may have had plate tectonics that…

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo

A modified version of the classic mirror test suggested that roosters recognize their reflections.

A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars

The discovery helped to show why the red planet’s core is not as large as earlier estimates had suggested it…

See You Later, Not-an-Alligator

Sidney Godfrey was sitting in the passenger seat of a truck slowly cruising over a levee one night in 2018.…

These Starfish Face Extinction. Scientists Are Helping Them Mate.

Scientists estimate that more than 5 billion sunflower sea stars, once a mighty predator, have died in the Pacific Ocean…

The Holmdel Horn, a Cosmic Shrine in New Jersey, Stays Put

The radio telescope that discovered the Big Bang has survived a real estate battle — for now.

Watch the Orionids Meteor Shower Reach Its Peak Tonight

On any given night, far from bright city lights, there’s a chance that you’ll see a beautiful streak shoot across…

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