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ESA Confirms Rosetta’s Landing Site On ‘Rubber Ducky’ Comet
Now comes the hard part: actually landing.
Elephants Able To Detect Rainstorms 150 Miles Away
Plus, how these weather predicting skills could save them from poachers
How Flies Are Responsible For Beer’s Tasty, Fruity Smells
Sorry, but brewer's yeast did not evolve for you.
The Brilliant Ten: Nicole Abaid Studies Bats To Make Drones Smarter
Learning how bats avoid radar jamming could help scientists control huge swarms of robots.
Volcanoes Erupted On The Moon Within The Past 100 Million Years
On the cosmic timeline, that’s basically yesterday.
This Woman Sees 100 Times More Colors Than The Average Person
A unique genetic mutation and a well-wired brain mean that Concetta Antico is like no other artist on Earth.
Australia’s Invasive Cane Toads Have Evolved To Hop Even Faster
The "cane toad front" now moves about 60 kilometers a year.
MIT Students Claim Astronauts Will Starve On ‘Mars One’ Mission
But CEO Bas Lansdorp says the study used bad data.
Weather Of Wild Exoplanet Mapped Using Hubble Telescope
With scorching temperatures day and night, WASP-43b ain’t no place to live.
Venomous Slow Loris May Have Evolved To Mimic Cobras
Don't be fooled by those big brown eyes.
The Brilliant Ten: Manu Prakash Brings Science To The Masses
He creates low-cost alternatives to high-tech research equipment.
Popular Science’s Strange Reporting Of The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
The flu was clearly on our editors' minds, but they seemed to have left the more straightforward reporting to other outlets.
Throwback Thursday: Digital Dogs, The B-2 Stealth Bomber, And Innovations Against Climate Change
Soviets, robbers, and chloroflourocarbons. Oh my!