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A mother and calf West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in Crystal River, Florida.
Environment

Florida’s famous manatees were originally tourists

By Laura Baisas

Marine fossils found at Neanderthal cave site
Science

Neanderthals may have enjoyed collecting tchotchkes—just like us

By Andrew Paul

stone walls separating several small houses in ireland
Science

Scottish, Irish, and Northern English better at detecting fake accents

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight.
Science

New pterosaur species sliced through the air with a sword-like tail

By Laura Baisas

This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and organelles in yellow-green).
Science

Bioengineers made mutant, solar-powered hamster cells

By Andrew Paul

a tick half embedded in human skin
Environment

How hitchhiking ticks are bringing diseases to new places

By Laura Baisas

a molting penguin with a mixture of feathers
Environment

Famously extra large penguin Pesto is molting

By Laura Baisas

a female mountain lion walks at night with some kittens behind her
Environment

Mountain lions in Los Angeles become night owls to avoid humans

By Laura Baisas

a small bird with black, gray, and white, plumage solves a puzzle in a lab
Environment

Immigrating great tits learn from their new neighbors

By Laura Baisas

a colorful coral reef with fish swimming above it
Environment

Chlorine and cocoa butter may help disease-ridden corals

By Laura Baisas

x-ray scans of early human skulls. the teeth are colored red, green, orange, blue, and purple to show the differences among them
Science

These 1.77-million-year-old teeth could help demystify human childhoods

By Laura Baisas

a small baby gibbon with large eyes sits on its mother
Environment

Endangered newborn siamang gibbon is a ‘sign of hope’

By Laura Baisas

a new mollusc with a hood over its head
Science

New deep-sea slug catches crustaceans like a Venus fly trap

By Laura Baisas

Close up of blooming corpse flower
Environment

Scientists crack the mystery of why the corpse flower smells like death

By Andrew Paul

a yellow dog shakes excess water off of its fur
Environment

Why wet dogs shake so much

By Laura Baisas

an elephant in a zoo enclosure holds a yellow hose in its trunk and uses the hose as a shower
Science

Watch a clever elephant use a hose to get clean

By Laura Baisas

Chimpanzee playing a number-based game on a touch screen
Science

Like humans, chimps often perform tasks differently when crowds are watching

By Andrew Paul

a lone coyote in a forest looks into a camera lense
Environment

Coyotes appear to be thriving under pressure

By Laura Baisas

Astrocytes; neuroglial cells, 250X at 35mm.
Science

‘Swiss army knife’ of the brain: How star-shaped cells reshape our understanding of memory

By Tom Hawking

brain scans of people watching clips from movies
Science

MIT maps how the brain experiences movies

By Laura Baisas