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Walter the penguin loves popping bubbles
The young penguin uses the soapy spheres for enrichment activities.
Blood, poop, and carcasses: How feasting bugs are helping map biodiversity
Critters that dine on flesh and waste also consume the animal’s DNA. That genetic material is helping scientists detect and map elusive species and their pathogens.
Researchers in Switzerland invent a new type of pixel
Pixels either control light or analyze it. This one does both.
Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider
After 18 years of discovery, it’s goodbye LHC and hello High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
Can printed ‘skin’ help to heal burns without scars?
Inks created with a patient’s own cells might one day help the body regrow tissues.
31 alien-like marine species discovered off the coast of Brazil
A ghostly squid, speedy gossamer worm, and more dwell 600 to 3,300 feet beneath the waves.
The American revolutionaries who popularized science in the early United States
Benjamin Franklin and other citizen scientists are core parts of the American experiment.
Young humpback whale freed from a death trap in Alaska
The whale was entangled in crab pot lines at Endicott Arm near Juneau.
America’s Time Capsule will be buried for 250 years. Here’s how to watch.
The high-tech historical repository will be buried in Philadelphia on July Fourth.
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