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Space

A Soviet spacecraft will crash to Earth this month

Kosmos 482 launched for Venus in 1972 but never left Earth orbit. The spacecraft has now lost enough energy that it can’t fight gravity anymore.

By Lisa Grossman33 minutes ago

A Yangtze finless porpoise looking towards the camera through the glass in a dolphinarium at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Animals

Ancient poems document the decline of the Yangtze finless porpoise

By McKenzie Prillaman3 hours ago

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Animals

Frog ribbits erupt via an extravagant variety of vocal sacs

By Susan Milius5 hours ago

A cloud in space with wisps of green, blue, purple and reddish gas swirling around a dark, jagged core, set against a star-filled background with a glowing yellow star at the lower right.

A gas cloud 5,500 times as massive as the sun lurks nearby

By Mara Johnson-GrohMay 2, 2025

Muddy-looking water surrounds a car and house, creeping up toward the car windows and the steps of the front porch.

Climate

Losing a key U.S. climate report would hurt future disaster prep

By Carolyn GramlingMay 2, 2025

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Health & Medicine

A man let snakes bite him 202 times. His blood helped create a new antivenom

By Meghan RosenMay 2, 2025

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Playing this Minecraft game hints at how we learn in real life

By Laura SandersMay 2, 2025

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Bird flu in cows shows no signs of adapting to humans — yet

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

By Tina Hesman SaeyApril 28, 2025
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This caterpillar wears the body parts of insect prey

Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.

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Ancient horse hunts challenge ideas of ‘modern’ human behavior

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Clinical trials face uncertain futures amid Trump cuts

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Could Spinosaurus swim? The fierce dinosaur ignites debate

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Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush hour collisions

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Astronomy

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Earth

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