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  1. Animals

    Cuttlefish ink may overwhelm sharks’ sense of smell

    The main component of common cuttlefish ink — melanin — strongly sticks to shark smell sensors, possibly explaining why the predators avoid ink.

    By McKenzie Prillaman
  2. Animals

    This bird’s eye view of a shark hunt won a photo contest

    A snapshot of blacktip reef sharks hunting hardyhead silverside fish won the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Health & Medicine

    A second version of bird flu is infecting cows. What does that mean?

    While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.