A sea slug’s detached head can crawl around and grow a whole new body
Losing your body from the neck down can be just another one of life’s annoying, but temporary, setbacks — at least for two kinds...
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Delve into the history of the fight for Earth’s endangered creatures
Beloved BeastsMichelle NijhuisW.W. Norton & Co., $27.95 On October 29, 1929, a date best remembered for the infamous Black Tuesday stock market crash, socialite...
A magnetic trap captures elusive ultracold plasma
In terms of difficulty, trapping a plasma is right up there with catching a cloud and pinning it down, or holding a moonbeam in...
To understand how ‘night-shining’ clouds form, scientists made one themselves
NASA’s Super Soaker mission was basically an extreme DIY project: To better understand how noctilucent, or night-shining clouds form, researchers made one from scratch....
Andromeda’s and the Milky Way’s black holes will collide. Here’s how it may play out
The supermassive black holes at the centers of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are doomed to engulf each other in an ill-fated cosmological...
COVID-19 has exacerbated a troubling U.S. health trend: premature deaths
There is no good time for a pandemic, but COVID-19 hit the United States as a public health crisis was well under way. The...
Most pro athletes who got COVID-19 didn’t develop heart inflammation
Most professional athletes who got COVID-19 didn’t suffer heart damage from it, a new study suggests. Researchers screened 789 players who had tested positive...
Female green tree frogs have noise-canceling lungs that help them hear mates
To find her mate amidst a cacophony of frog croaks, groans, squeaks and trills, a female green tree frog just needs to take a...
Catnip repels insects. Scientists may have finally found out how
A whiff of catnip can make mosquitoes buzz off, and now researchers know why. The active component of catnip (Nepeta cataria) repels insects by...
50 years ago, U.S. commercial whaling was coming to an end
Whale protection — Science News, March 6, 1971 Whaling by the single remaining United States whaling firm, the Del Monte Fishing Co. of San...
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