All Stories
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- Animals
Eating can be skin deep
In the laboratory, bottom-dwelling hagfish absorb nutrients through the skin.
- Life
Full-body taste
Turns out that the tongue isn’t the only place where the body can taste what you ate.
- Earth
Quake leaves destruction, fear
In Japan, an earthquake started a tsunami that caused a nuclear disaster.
- Animals
There’s no ‘i’ in elephant
These clever mammals may know when two trunks are better than one.
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- Plants
Carnivorous plants say ‘cheese’
It took high-speed cameras to reveal how the bladderwort gets lunch.
- Microbes
Life in the bacterial underground
Tiny life forms in rock may coax minerals to release hydrogen for food.
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- Planets
The growing planetary family
At least 1,200 added to list of possible planets beyond the solar system.
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