Despite the unpredictable weather, spring officially arrives this Friday, marking the vernal…
Category: 9. Sci/Tech
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If the Menu Is Just Right, Seals Will Risk Danger From Polar Bears for a Better Meal
Learn how climate change is shifting the way seals hunt and how a lose of ice could create bigger risks even still.
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Baby Rattlesnakes Aren’t More Dangerous Than Adults — So Why Did This Myth Spread?
Learn how baby rattlesnakes actually control their venom, why adults pose a greater risk, and how misinformation spread through years of headlines.
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Pythons’ Unique Eating Habits May Inspire the Next Generation of Weight Loss Drugs
By studying how snakes process large meals and long food breaks, scientists identified an overlooked compound in humans that could expand weight loss therapies.
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This Newly Discovered Texas Bee Appears to Live on Just One Plant — and Nothing Else
Learn how a new mining bee species in Texas depends entirely on the cenizo (Texas Ranger) plant for survival.
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Some Tattoo Ink May Cause Immune‑Triggered Eye Inflammation and In Rare Cases Lead to Vision Loss
Learn more about emerging cases of uveitis in Australia that researchers believe may be triggered by reactions to tattoo ink.
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Meet Dooly, a Baby Dinosaur That May Have Been Fuzzy and Was Hidden in 113-Million-Year-Old Rock
Learn how a newly discovered baby dinosaur fossil from Aphae Island, South Korea, became the first find of its kind in 15 years.
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JWST Identifies a New Class of Planet With Deep Magma Oceans — Which is Unlike Anything in our Solar System
Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean
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A student volunteer was sent into a room with 100 hungry mosquitoes. Here’s why
“Four minutes is too long.”
That’s the note undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me along with…
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Get Ready for a Year of Chaotic Weather in the US
Despite being declared the third-hottest year on record, 2025 was a relatively quiet year for climate disasters in the US. No major hurricanes made landfall, while the total number of acres burned in wildfires last year—a way of measuring the…
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