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![an infrared image of a human head, showing warm areas in shades of orange and yellow, and cooler areas in blue and green](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/infrared-imaging.png?quality=85&w=800)
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Mosquitoes can sense our body heat
![stages of a plant's development](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/plant-growth.png?quality=85&w=800)
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Yes, plants go through ‘puberty’
![a green parrot with an open beak and orange and black eye](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/parrot-call.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
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These parrots have accents
![several white circles surround a humpback whale with an open mouth](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/bubble-nets.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
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Humpback whales use bubble-nets as ‘tools’
![a python with a wide open mouth swallows a white rat whole](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/python.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
Environment
How pythons can eat such giant meals
![a group of earthworms in rich, dark soil](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/worms-soil.png?quality=85&w=800)
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Hear the ‘rave’-like sounds of a healthy soil
![An old ink drawing of Sweden’s Forsa Ring with the runic inscription.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/forsa-ring-illustration.png?quality=85&w=800)
Science
Even Vikings had to pay fines
![stonehenge. these large neolithic standing stones are arranged in a circle](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/stonehenge.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
Archaeology
Geologists crack a major Stonehenge mystery
![roach at home](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cockroach.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
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Roach sprays don’t work
![a long grey sediment core taken from the earth's mantle](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sediment-core.png?quality=85&w=800)
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Longest rocks ever recovered from Earth’s mantle
![four different types of corn. one is long and yellow, the other is shorter and yellow. the other two are shorter and black](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/corn-gene-2.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
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Love corn? Thank interbreeding
![The newly discovered Paragonaster hoeimaruae. There are many types of starfish and this one is particularly adapted to living in sandy, muddy waters, a feature the researchers want to learn more about.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/new-starfish-1.png?quality=85&w=800)
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