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This Fungus Eats the Butts off Cicadas

It’s totally not a big deal, though

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This Video of Lightning in Slow Motion is Strangely Entrancing

Hypnotize yourself with lightning at 2,000 frames per second

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These Drones Hunt Whale Snot

Snotbots will make mucus collection less stressful for whales

With carrot liqueur, one distillery takes a cue from Bugs Bunny

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Carrot Liqueur Could Be Coming to a Cocktail Near You

What’s Next?! Kale?!

Malaria infected blood cells (blue)

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The First Malaria Vaccine Could Be Released Soon

The vaccine isn’t as effective as hoped however, and needs several more approvals

New Horizons snapped this parting shot of Pluto on July 15, 2015.

New Horizons Snaps a Final Shot of Pluto

So long, dwarf planet!

The fragments comprise two parchment leaves, written in Hijazi script on sheep or goat skin.

New Research

Carbon Dating Reveals One of the Oldest Known Copies of the Quran

Manuscript fragments found in U.K. library were written between 568 and 645

The Scanadu Scout is just one of the many devices that attempt to act like a real-life tricorder

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A List of All the Times People Have Tried to Build a Working Tricorder

Star Trek-style scanning has been a bit more complicated than expected

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Your Pupils May Expand When You Daydream

But researchers aren’t totally sure why or how the two are connected

Brain tissue infected with Naegleria fowleri glows green.

New Research

Brain-Eating Amoebas May Kill You With Help from Your Own Immune System

The amoeba’s presence in the brain triggers swelling that may do more harm than good

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Bakers Are Still Searching for the Perfect Egg Replacement

Egg prices are hitting record highs, raising demand for substitutes

This fasciated flower — a White Mule’s Ear, found in Island Park, Idaho — has the same disorder found in flowers near Fukushima

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Don’t Freak Out Over the Funky Flowers That Appeared Near Fukushima

The odd appearance is due to a plant disorder called fasciation

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An Explosion at a National Lab is Being Linked to Meth

A former combustion research lab seems to have been used for a very different purpose: cooking methamphetamine

Orson Welles as Macbeth in the 1948 film with Jeannette Nolan as Lady Macbeth

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Listen to 98 hours of Shakespeare’s Poems and Plays Performed by Great Actors

The playlist includes the voices of Edith Evans, Dylan Thomas, Orson Welles and Sir Ian McKellen

The tasty bruschetta in the study.

New Research

Great Appetizers Can Spoil the Main Meal

The contrast is key

A graphical abstract from the paper shows the bat approaching its pitcher plant partner.

New Research

This Plant Calls to Bats So They Will Poop in it

Specially shaped reflectors bounce back the squeaks of echolocating bats

Anthophyllite asbestos from Georgia

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Why Are People Still Using Asbestos?

The story holds parallels with that of the tobacco industry

Two black rhinos, a mother and her calf, explore a watering hole at Etosha National Park in Namibia.

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Researchers are Fitting Rhinos With Hidden Horn Cameras

One non-profit wants to outfit the animals with cameras and heart rate monitors to save them

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Root Beer Is For Adults Again

This is not your soda fountain’s root beer

A helicopter drops approximately gallons of water from a “Bambi Bucket” on to the Stetson Creek Fire near Cooper Landing, Alaska, June 17, 2015.

Watch Wildfire Smoke from Alaska and Canada Envelop the Arctic

Here’s why that’s bad

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