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Releasing Baby Cane Toads Teaches Predators to Avoid Toxic Adults
Releasing Baby Cane Toads Teaches Predators to Avoid Toxic Adults Australian conservationists introduced juvenile cane toads ahead of invasions to…
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Very Hungry—And Very Invasive—Caterpillars Are a Munching through U.S. Forests
Millions of Very Hungry Caterpillars Are Munching Their Way through U.S. Forests Drought is facilitating the devastating spread of spongy…
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500-Pound Prehistoric Bird Was a ‘Giga-Goose,’ Fossils Reveal
500-Pound Prehistoric Bird Was a ‘Giga-Goose,’ Fossils Reveal Scientists reveal the face of Australia’s massive, extinct “giga-goose” By Kate Evans…
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Singapore Airlines Turbulence: Why Climate Change Is Making Flights Rougher
Singapore Airlines Turbulence: Why Climate Change Is Making Flights Rougher Warming temperatures are likely to mean that more of your…
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The 2024 Hurricane Season Could Be a Dangerous One
The 2024 Hurricane Season Could Be a Dangerous One The National Hurricane Center’s hurricane season outlook for the Atlantic Ocean…
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How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science
“One Guinness, please!” says a customer to a barkeep, who flips a branded pint glass and catches it under the…
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At Least Two Countries Have Lost All Their Glaciers
At Least Two Countries Have Lost All Their Glaciers Two countries—Slovenia and Venezuela—have lost all of their glaciers. It is…
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Optical Illusions Can Fool AI Chatbots, Too
When Dimitris Papailiopoulos first asked ChatGPT to interpret colors in images, he was thinking about “the dress”—the notoriously confusing optical-illusion…
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See What Gives Sourdough Its Distinctive Taste and Smell
See What Gives Sourdough Its Distinctive Taste and Smell You can thank yeast and bacteria cultivated over generations for the…
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Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses to Share the Awe with Others
Donate Your Eclipse Glasses to Help Others Safely Enjoy the Awe The nonprofit Astronomers Without Borders is collecting gently used…
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