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A red tide devastated Florida marine life for 16 months. Why?

A red tide devastated Florida marine life for 16 months. Why?

By Mallory Pickett

Looking for a book? Try these tales of strange brains, ancient whales, and Hamilton’s forgotten doctor.

Looking for a book? Try these tales of strange brains, ancient whales, and Hamilton’s forgotten doctor.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Dinosaur extinction is an unsolved mystery. This ancient fish may have swallowed some crucial evidence.

Dinosaur extinction is an unsolved mystery. This ancient fish may have swallowed some crucial evidence.

By Neel V. Patel

Watch ‘giant pill bugs’ burrow inside this alligator carcass for legitimate scientific reasons

Watch ‘giant pill bugs’ burrow inside this alligator carcass for legitimate scientific reasons

By Sara Chodosh

Future offshore drilling could wreak havoc on deep sea ecosystems

Future offshore drilling could wreak havoc on deep sea ecosystems

By Sara Kiley Watson

This ancient stegosaurus-platypus mashup has everything

This ancient stegosaurus-platypus mashup has everything

By Jessica Boddy

The fate of future endangered species could hinge on a semantic argument

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The fate of future endangered species could hinge on a semantic argument

Can industrial farming be a force for good?

Can industrial farming be a force for good?

By Ted Genoways

A new study on whales suggests Darwin didn’t quite get it right

A new study on whales suggests Darwin didn’t quite get it right

Otters are too small, whales are too big, and seals are just right

By Sara Chodosh

Yes, a tax bill can—and likely will—spoil America’s most pristine wildlife refuge

Yes, a tax bill can—and likely will—spoil America’s most pristine wildlife refuge

By Lauren Steele

A ‘male’ octopus surprised its keepers with a cloud of 10,000 babies

A ‘male’ octopus surprised its keepers with a cloud of 10,000 babies

By Sara Chodosh

25 Reasons To Love Drones

By Popular Science Team

A blindfolded sea otter named Selka shows how the critters find food in murky water

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Local knowledge can save endangered animals

By Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, Benjamin L. Jones, and Richard K.F. Unsworth/The Conversation

This human-sized penguin isn’t even the largest ancient penguin we know about

This human-sized penguin isn’t even the largest ancient penguin we know about

By Rachel Feltman

Conservation takes one scientist to the extreme

Conservation takes one scientist to the extreme

By Marlene Cimons

A Labrador retriever smelling for explosives with a member of a bomb squad at the trial of the 2015 Boston Marathon bomber

No machine can beat a dog’s bomb-detecting sniffer

How polar animals cope with frigid darkness for months at a time

How polar animals cope with frigid darkness for months at a time

By Kate Baggaley

Human spit is actually a great cleaning solution (and other award-winning scientific finds)

Human spit is actually a great cleaning solution (and other award-winning scientific finds)

By Sara Chodosh

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Left: The painting depicts a corner of Munich’s Odeonsplatz, with the Bavarian flag flying over the square. X-ray fluorescence analysis shows where areas have been overpainted with titanium white. Right: False-colour representation of the reconstructed painting featuring the memorial and the Nazi flag.

Hidden Nazi symbols discovered in famous German artist’s painting

By Margherita Bassi

Global map showing density distribution of fungi networks

621 trillion miles of fungi networks crisscross the planet

Scientist using ultrasonic espresso brewing machine in lab

Espresso brewed with soundwaves instead of heat tastes just as good

two bald eagles standing in a nest above a lake looking straight at a camera

Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow need $10 million

By Laura Baisas