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Sea sponges launch slow-motion snot rockets to clean their pores

Sea sponges rely on a sneezing mechanism to clear their pores, using mucus to flush out debris. This mucus provides food for other marine life.

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Animals

Relocated beavers helped mitigate some effects of climate change

By Richard KemenyAugust 9, 2022

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Space

How balloons could one day detect quakes on Venus

By Freda KreierAugust 9, 2022

Mini-Neptunes may become super-Earths as the exoplanets lose their atmospheres

By Liz KruesiAugust 8, 2022

Scientists mapped dark matter around galaxies in the early universe

By Emily ConoverAugust 8, 2022

Space

How Mars rovers have evolved in 25 years of exploring the Red Planet

By Alexandra WitzeAugust 5, 2022

The Windchime experiment could use gravity to hunt for dark matter ‘wind’

By James R. RiordonAugust 4, 2022

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Humans may not be able to handle as much heat as scientists thought

By Carolyn GramlingJuly 27, 2022
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Scientists turned dead spiders into robots

By Asa StahlAugust 4, 2022
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By Anna GibbsApril 22, 2022
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Mini-Neptunes may become super-Earths as the exoplanets lose their atmospheres

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A new James Webb telescope image reveals a galactic collision’s aftermath

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The Future of Food

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How much does eating meat affect nations’ greenhouse gas emissions?

How much meat eating affects worldwide greenhouse gas emissions comes clear in new country-by-country analyses.

By Betsy LadyzhetsMay 5, 2022
Eating meat is the Western norm. But norms can change
These six foods may become more popular as the planet warms

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Humans

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Astronomy

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Physics

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Health & Medicine

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Earth

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Science & Society

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