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A spotted lanternfly expands its wings while facing the camera in the center of the photo. It is sitting on a black surface that has been spray painted with red paint. Its red underwings with black spots closest to its body. The top of its wings are a grayish brown with black spots. In the middle of each wing is a black portion with a white strip down the center

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A golden apple snail crawls in an aquarium. The snail has a yellow shell with brown stripes. One round eye appears to stare into the camera. The snails can regenerate their eyes.

This snail may hold a secret to human eye regeneration

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Global visualization of aerosols swirling around the Earth, depicted in vivid colors including green, red, and purples.

See how aerosols loft through Earth’s sky

Aerosols, small particles in the atmosphere like salt and dust, may offset a third of human-caused climate warming, though their influence is fading.

A researcher wearing purple nitrile gloves flosses the lower incisors of a mouse. A second researcher, also wearing purple gloves, holds the mouse by the scruff of its neck. The mouse's head is also looped through a metal key ring, with part of the ring supporting its lower jaw.

How flossing a mouse’s teeth could lead to a new kind of vaccine

A spotted lanternfly expands its wings while facing the camera in the center of the photo. It is sitting on a black surface that has been spray painted with red paint. Its red underwings with black spots closest to its body. The top of its wings are a grayish brown with black spots. In the middle of each wing is a black portion with a white strip down the center

Squashing the spotted lanternfly problem may require enlisting other species

A golden apple snail crawls in an aquarium. The snail has a yellow shell with brown stripes. One round eye appears to stare into the camera. The snails can regenerate their eyes.

This snail may hold a secret to human eye regeneration

A round spiky plant that grows high in the trees in Fiji looks like an overgrown kiwi sprouting some branches. Unseen are interior chambers that the plant grows, which host ant colonies.

These plants build ant condos that keep warring species apart

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