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Watch a Giant Stingray’s Safe Return to Its River Home
Just after dawn on May 5, scientists working along a stretch of the Mekong River in Cambodia released a giant,…
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Scientists Found an Animal That Walks on Three Limbs. It’s a Parrot.
Lovebirds, small parrots with vibrant rainbow plumage and cheeky personalities, are popular pets. They swing from ropes, cuddle with companions…
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Elephants in Mourning Spotted on YouTube by Scientists
It was 2013 when Sanjeeta Pokharel first witnessed Asian elephants responding to death. An older female elephant in an Indian…
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NASA Starts Countdown to Robotic Mission’s End on Mars
NASA’s InSight spacecraft is not quite dead yet. But InSight, a stationary robotic probe on Mars, has been steadily growing…
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An Anaconda’s Play Date With Dolphins Took a Strange Turn
In August 2021, a research team was documenting biodiversity near the Tijamuchi River in Bolivia when they saw some animals…
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Watch a Helicopter Try to Catch a Rocket Booster Falling From Space
Catch a falling rocket and bring it back to shore … On Tuesday (it will still be Monday evening in…
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NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars With Ingenuity Helicopter
The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars. And indeed it is. But it doesn’t belong to aliens.…
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Who Ended the Travel Mask Mandate? A Vaccine Critic, a Florida Judge and 2 Anxious Travelers
When the federal mandate requiring masks to be worn on planes and other public transportation crumbled last week, it was…
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Tripping Through the Universes
In 2009, two Stanford physicists, Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin, wrote a paper calculating the number of possible universes that…
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Where Do Travelers Need to Wear Masks Now?
A federal judge in Florida struck down the federal mask requirement for planes and public transit on Monday, which had…
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