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This Week in Science: Ocean 'Backrooms', Plastic Cookies, And More!
2+ week, 1+ day ago (373+ words) This Week in Science: Reversing Alzheimer's damage, the safest place on Earth, and more! First up: Oceanographers exploring a sonar blip assumed they'd find a shipwreck....
What Do You See? This Week's Monday Microscope Mystery
1+ week, 5+ day ago (414+ words) Familiar things can look very strange when viewed under a microscope – which is why each week we bring you a fresh microscope mystery to put your detective skills to the test. This week's mystery looks almost cosmic – a scatter of…...
Scientists Wiggled a Fish's Earbones With Light – And Changed Its Heartbeat
3+ week, 6+ day ago (546+ words) If you want to make someone's heart beat faster, there are probably better ways to approach it than shining a flashlight in their ear....
Scientists Filmed an Alien-Looking Fish Moonwalking Across The Seafloor
1+ week, 5+ day ago (430+ words) The expansive, abyssal darkness of the deep sea mirrors the mystique and grandeur of outer space. Hauntingly bioluminescent creatures shine like nebulae, 'marine snow' full of fish feces glitters like space dust, and alien-ish glowing sharks prowl the depths. And…...
Mesmerizing Video Reveals a Rare Ocean Ecosystem at The Edge of a Greenland Glacier
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (321+ words) This Earth of ours still holds untold wonders, even if it can sometimes feel like we've seen it all....
Bizarre Fossil Turns Out to Be a 24-Legged Insect Science Somehow Missed
2+ week, 2+ day ago (254+ words) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, this story is a difficult one to beat....
Forget The 7-Year Rule – Scientists Found a Better Way to Calculate a Dog's Age
3+ week, 6+ day ago (418+ words) Celebrating a dog's birthday is one of the genuinely great things to share and enjoy on social media....
We May Finally Know Why Mysterious Mushroom Fairy Rings Grow in Circles
4+ week, 1+ day ago (910+ words) If you're ever in a patch of woods or meadow at just the right time of year, you may stumble across something that seems like an act of otherworldly trickery. In the right circumstances, you might encounter an almost perfect…...
Ancient DNA Reveals The 'American Cheetah' Wasn't a Cheetah at All
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (441+ words) The Ice Age movies get one major thing right: Climate shifts and glaciation caused profound animal migrations and evolutionary adaptations – though it's uncertain if any of them resulted from an acorn-burying saber-toothed squirrel splitting a continent. During the Pleistocene epoch,…...
'Impossible': This Tiny Animal Can Pass Radiation Damage to Its Offspring – And Repair It Over Generations
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (1294+ words) In the mosses and lichens of the world – the in-between places, where living conditions rapidly fluctuate – lives a tiny animal with an extraordinary survival skill. No, not tardigrades – it's their much weirder housemate, the bdelloid rotifer. Just like tardigrades, bdelloid…...