All Stories
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Animals
Bee heat cooks invaders
Certain honeybees in Asia use their body heat to kill attacking wasps.
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Health & Medicine
Teen Brains, Under Construction
Spurts in brain development may help account for changes in teen behavior.
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Plants
Cactus goo for clean water
A cactus commonly found in Mexico can help clean up dirty water.
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Environment
Unnatural disasters
The actions of people can make the destruction caused by hurricanes worse than it would be otherwise.
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Psychology
Pain expectations
How painful you expect something to be beforehand can affect how you actually feel when you're hurt.
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Planets
An Icy Blob of Fluff
Firing a projectile into a comet has exposed an icy dirtball.
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Environment
Shrinking glaciers
Most glaciers around the world appear to be getting smaller.
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Animals
From Chimps to People
Although chimpanzees and people share many genes, there are key biological differences.
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Tech
Roboroach and company
Cockroaches and lobsters inspire robots that navigate in darkness and track smells.
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Humans
Salt and Early Civilization
Evidence from China suggests that people were making salt at least 4,000 years ago.
By Emily Sohn