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Spiders Seem to Have REM-like Sleep and May Even Dream
Barred from her lab by pandemic restrictions, behavioral ecologist Daniela Rößler caught local jumping spiders and kept them in clear…
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First photos of cougars killing donkeys in Death Valley suggest big impacts for ecosystem
For humans and wildlife alike, feral donkeys can be a pain in the ass. Large and full of attitude, the…
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Salty Sea Spray Keeps Lightning Strikes Away
Although most rain on Earth falls over the oceans, lightning at sea is rarer than expected—and for decades, scientists were…
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How Common Are Reinfections, and How Trust Can Beat the Virus: COVID, Quickly, Episode 35
Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to Covid Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series! Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update…
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This Sticker Looks Inside the Body
Ultrasound scanners, which image the inside of the human body, are a life-saving medical tool. Now researchers have shrunk the…
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Behold, Some Hidden Gems from JWST’s First Images
The first images released from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed new views of the cosmos in exquisite, never-before-seen…
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Data Vu: Why Breaches Involve the Same Stories Again and Again
In the classic comedy Groundhog Day, protagonist Phil, played by Bill Murray, asks “What would you do if you were…
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Controversial idea that T. rex was three species comes under fire
By Carissa Wong Variation in Tyrannosaurus rex fossils has led some to suggest that they aren’t all from the same…
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Meet the Giant Sequoia, the ‘Super Tree’ Built to Withstand Fire
When the Grizzly Giant sprouted from the ground in what is now Yosemite National Park, the Roman Republic was nearly…
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Draft bill would ban CDC, NIH from funding lab research in China
A proposal moving through Congress to bar the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and…
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