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Putting Eyeballs on Billboards Might Help Stop Crime

The feeling of being watched makes human change their behavior, even if it comes from a poster.

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A Manhattan-Sized Glacier Chunk Just Broke Off in Greenland

Glacial calving creates monster icebergs

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There’s Now Whiskey On the ISS

(But astronauts can't drink it)

The full Rhamphorhynchus specimen

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Fossilized Poop is Rare, Fossilized Poop Inside a Fossilized Dinosaur is Even Rarer

Fossilized feces are always interesting, and researchers may have just found an extra special example

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See, in Slow Motion, how Ladybugs Fit Wings Inside Their Spotted red Shells

A view of the insects that is rarely seen

Five pups from the Shasta Pack

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Biologists Have Spotted the First Wolf Pack in California in 100 Years

Two adults and five pups make up the newly-named Shasta Pack

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Over 14,000 Miles of America's Coastline is Covered in Concrete

14 percent of America’s coastline is coated in concrete — and that could actually be really bad

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Ancient Diamonds Came From Seawater and Future Diamonds Might Come From The Air

Cloudy diamonds give some scientists new clues to how they formed underground, others find ways to make them out of thin air.

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For A Better-Tasting Tomato, Dip It In Hot Water Before Sticking It In The Fridge

A simple chemical trick could make supermarket tomatoes taste way better.

A Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion)

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The Story of the Butterfly That Got Adopted by A Red Ant

With unexpected infanticide and toxic chemicals, it’s a story loved by all

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Grimy City Buildings Re-Pollute the Air

Filthy urban surfaces “breathe” pollutants when they’re exposed to sun

A hummingbird sticks out its tongue in Ecuador.

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Hummingbird Tongues Are Pumps, Not Straws

A tiny, quick pump mechanism lets birds slurp up nectar at a rate of 14 licks per second

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Black Holes Might Catapult Rogue Supernovas Into Space

Like being fired from a slingshot at 4.5 million miles an hour

A hawthorn tree in the moonlight

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Plants Might Move with the Moon Just as the Oceans Do with Tides

One researcher calls it the "leaftide"

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This Pesticide Doesn’t Kill Spiders, But It Does Mess With Their Heads

Just because a chemical isn’t lethal doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous to other insects

Leaf-cutter ants tending a fungus garden in Guadaloupe

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Future Antibiotics for Humans Could Come From Ant Fungus Gardens

A unique symbiotic relationship exists between leaf-cutter ants, fungi and bacteria

An image of the Italian Alps, snapped in June by the ESA's Sentinel-2, could be used in biodiversity studies.

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Why Satellites Are a Biologist's Best Friend

From tracking penguins to coral reefs, satellites are changing the way scientists study ecology

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Is Chocolate Milk the Next Sports Drink?

It all comes down to cows

The leading hemisphere of Dione shows tectonic faults running across its surface, along with craters, in false color, which was produced by an image in the ultraviolet, green, and infrared wavelengths taken by the Cassini Orbiter. The subtle variations in color may be caused by fine ice particles.

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Today, Cassini Will Say Goodbye to Saturn’s Moon Dione

It's curtains for the NASA mission's close relationship with the satellite

A solar flare erupts from the Sun in 2012.

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When Will the Next Solar Superflare Hit Earth?

The year 2209 just got a lot scarier

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