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  1. Animals

    What is a dinosaur?

    Scientists have named more than 1,000 species of nonavian dinosaurs. Their legacy lives on in the 11,000-plus bird species alive today.

    By Aaron Tremper
  2. Fossils

    This paleontologist solved a nearly 50-year-old dino mystery 

    ReBecca Hunt-Foster described what is now the state dinosaur of Arkansas 

    By Aaron Tremper
  3. Animals

    Let’s learn about bumblebees

    In the spring, queen bumblebees emerge from their winter hibernation to start new colonies.

    By Maria Temming
  4. Health & Medicine

    This Indigenous herb may improve therapy for muscle disorder

    Treating weakened fruit flies with an herb-drug combo was more effective than the usual drug-only treatment.

    By Maria Temming
  5. Artificial Intelligence

    AI-designed proteins target toxins in deadly snake venom

    The current way to produce antivenoms is outdated. In lab tests, AI-designed proteins could save mice from a lethal dose of snake toxin.

    By Meghan Rosen
  6. Chemistry

    Scientists Say: Nucleosynthesis

    For this nuclei-forging cosmic process, the Big Bang was just a way to get started.

    By Katie Grace Carpenter
  7. Materials Science

    Orange food dye can temporarily turn skin transparent

    When mixed with water and rubbed on the skin, a common food dye allows researchers to peer inside the body of a mouse.

    By Alison Pearce Stevens
  8. Health & Medicine

    2025’s Texas measles outbreak is a lesson in the value of vaccines

    The outbreak shows that a near absence of once-common childhood diseases — like measles — is not evidence that vaccines are unnecessary.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  9. Artificial Intelligence

    DeepSeek pioneers a new way for AI to ‘reason’

    Chatbots answer one question at a time. Reasoning agents work through a problem step by step. DeepSeek makes this new type of AI far less costly.

    By Kathryn Hulick
  10. Animals

    Among chimpanzees, peeing is contagious

    One individual chimpanzee peeing prompts others to follow suit — but scientists don’t know why.

    By Gennaro Tomma
  11. Physics

    Wiggling robots reveal the physics of how Hula-Hoops stay up

    Newbies should swing their Hula-Hoops fast and in line with their bodies, the new findings suggest.

    By Emily Conover
  12. Earth

    Scientists Say: Dark lightning

    We don't see it, but rare gamma-ray lightning can bolt from stormy skies like regular lightning.

    By Katie Grace Carpenter
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