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Aoudads carry diseases with fatality rates as high as 80 percent.
Sugar discovered floating in deep space for the first time
Similarly sweet molecules may have jumpstarted life on Earth over 4 billion years ago.
Baby seal gets a swimming lesson
Weddell seal pups living in the Antarctic need to learn how to hold their breath and get in and out of the water.
Urban trees aren’t just nice, scientists say—they’re mandatory
Researchers are calling for cities to double down on one of the simplest yet most powerful solutions to many problems.
What is ‘de-extinction’ really for?
Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind of natural world we want to build.
60% of medieval knight tales lost to time
New research suggests that an enormous amount of chivalric manuscripts disappeared.
3 myths about cursive handwriting
It’s not faster, and it’s not legally required for signatures.
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