Certain young fruit flies’ eyes literally pop out of their head
Body changes at the brink of adulthood can get awkward in humans, but at least our eyes don’t pop out of our heads on...
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Video reveals that springtails are tiny acrobats
It’s not just panic and chance. Some of nature’s extreme self-launchers, the springtails, turn out to be much more acrobatic than scientists thought. Springtails,...
Catastrophic solar storms may not explain shadows of radiation in trees
A cryptic chemical signature of unknown origins, hidden for centuries inside the trunks of Earth’s trees, just became even more mysterious. In the last...
Part of a lost, ancient star catalog has now been found
Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries...
Astronomers have found the closest known black hole to Earth
The closest black hole yet found is just 1,560 light-years from Earth, a new study reports. The black hole, dubbed Gaia BH1, is about...
Cat allergies may be tamed by adding an asthma therapy to allergy shots
Adding lab-made antibodies to allergy shots may better groom the immune system against cat allergies than standard shots alone. The combination therapy also reduced...
The U.S.’s alcohol-induced death rate rose sharply in the pandemic’s first year
The death rate from alcohol use rose sharply in the United States in the first year of the pandemic. From 2019 to 2020, the...
Crowdsourced cell phone data could keep bridges safe and strong
Your cell phone could reveal the health status of bridges just by being in your pocket as you go about your daily travels. Accelerometers...
Marsquakes hint that the planet might be volcanically active after all
Mars might be, geologically speaking, not quite dead. Researchers have analyzed a slew of recent temblors on the Red Planet and shown that these...
Where are the long COVID clinics?
For the millions of people in the United States with long COVID, getting help comes down to where they live. Long COVID clinics have...
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