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How does Los Angeles get its water?
Technology

How does Los Angeles get its water?

From hundreds of miles away, mostly.

Could your favorite pain medicine send you into cardiac arrest?
Heart Disease

Could your favorite pain medicine send you into cardiac arrest?

A new study questions ibuprofen's safety

Plagued by predators in the sea, these fish are moving onto land
Evolution

Plagued by predators in the sea, these fish are moving onto land

Some blenny fish spend nearly their entire lives out of the water

Don’t go to Death Valley looking for a ‘Super Bloom’
Environment

Don’t go to Death Valley looking for a ‘Super Bloom’

Check your wildflower forecasts carefully

fluorescent tree frog
Animals

This is the first fluorescent frog ever and he’s adorable

But we don’t know if he can even see his own glow

watering can
Science

How much water does your food drink?

You're not the only one who gets thirsty

Building good mobile navigation is super hard. So why is Uber trying it?
Self Driving

Building good mobile navigation is super hard. So why is Uber trying it?

Redesigning in-app navigation in hopes drivers might actually use it.

Some corpses may mysteriously heat up after death
Science

Some corpses may mysteriously heat up after death

A strange case-study from the Czech Republic

Climate may have shaped the evolution of the human nose
Climate Change

Climate may have shaped the evolution of the human nose

Nature's nose job

High-intensity interval training is great for you—but it won’t keep you from aging
Fitness & Exercise

High-intensity interval training is great for you—but it won’t keep you from aging

Hot take: cellular-level studies are not the whole picture

This vaccine just might stop Ebola from annihilating the great apes
Vaccines

This vaccine just might stop Ebola from annihilating the great apes

It worked in the lab—but will it work in the jungle?

strait of gibraltar from above
Environment

The proposed 2018 federal budget tells NASA to forget about Earth

The space agency does crucial research on our own planet

frog with mucous membrane
Animals

How some animals survive on almost no water

Six scintillating adaptations for life in the driest places on Earth

A new test can detect your blood type with color-changing paper
Medicine

A new test can detect your blood type with color-changing paper

It could be crucial in emergency situations and remote areas

The Great Barrier Reef had a pretty terrible year
Ocean

The Great Barrier Reef had a pretty terrible year

And it's bleaching again right now

Haze over eastern China
Pollution

Changing weather patterns are trapping pollution over Chinese cities

Revealing the deadly effects of an invisible pollutant

This robot is perfectly designed to drill tiny tunnels in your skull
Robots

This robot is perfectly designed to drill tiny tunnels in your skull

The world's first robot-assisted cochlear implantation

You really can help save bees by planting wildflowers
Bees

You really can help save bees by planting wildflowers

Flower-rich areas may make bumblebees four times more likely to survive

Da Vinci’s Architronito
Projects

How to build a steam-powered cannon invented by Da Vinci

A less deadly version of the Architronito

bioluminescence belgium
Climate Change

Tasmania’s gorgeous, glowing water is a sign of something sinister

This luminous display means that changes are afoot