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A colony of Flavobacterium IR1 in a agar plate.
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In the Future, We May Paint With Brightly Colored Bacteria

Researchers have cracked the genetic code behind nature's structural colors, allowing them to be replicated fast.
Christina Ayele Djossa February 20, 2018
Don't sleep on liverwort.
science

Reimagining How Plants Began to Take Over the Planet

A series of studies takes a new look at the evolution of early land plants.
Sarah Laskow February 19, 2018
Model of Skylab outside Esperance Museum.
Esperance, Australia

Skylab’s Remains

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.
Visitors can view a slice of the fatberg from behind two layers of protective glass.
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How a Museum Cares for a Giant Chunk of Dried-Out Fat

A conservator shares the nitty-gritty details about taking a fatberg from the sewer to an exhibition.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 16, 2018
Two large fossilized mammoth tracks.
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The Stories Hidden in Fossilized Mammoth Footprints

What researchers uncovered when they analyzed 43,000-year-old tracks.
Christina Ayele Djossa February 14, 2018
This researcher captured a single atom between two electrodes.
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An Otherworldly Photograph of a Single Atom

It is suspended in the skinny gulf between two electrodes.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 13, 2018
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Thank These Master Alchemists for the Magic of Alcohol

Two Muslim scholars invented stills that could make spirits.
Anne Ewbank February 12, 2018
Two joyful Australian magpies share a treat.
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Australian Magpies From Big Families Do Better in Intelligence Tests

The bigger the brood, the brighter the bird.
Natasha Frost February 8, 2018
In Myotis bats, telomeres don't shorten with age.
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The Bats That Never Get Old

They eventually die, but their cells stay forever young.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 8, 2018
You going this way?
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The Surprising Diversity Among Schools of Fish

They're not a homogenous crowd.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 7, 2018
Hi! Can I help you?
rats

Rats Can Trade Favors

The wildly social rodents will work for snacks.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 5, 2018
Knock, knock.
science

What's Going on Inside Woodpeckers' Brains?

Researchers pried open the skulls of birds in museum collections to take a closer look.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 2, 2018
Something wrong?
science

The Bird That Can Picture Its Predators

"Snake!"
Jessica Leigh Hester February 2, 2018
Euptelea polyandra, an older lineage found in eastern China.
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Eastern China Is a 'Museum' of Flowering Plants

New research digs into the evolutionary history of these plants and finds an impressive diversity across the country.
Sarah Laskow January 31, 2018
New Caledonian crows extract food fastest when they've got tools in hand (er, beak).
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Tool-Wielding Crows Rustle Up the Most Snacks

The utensils are useful, but it's still unclear exactly how the corvids learn to make them.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 26, 2018
This part of Australia was next to Canada...a very, very long time ago. Way pre-cow.
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Northern Australia Was Once Smushed Up Against North America

And other strange facts of supercontinent history.
Sarah Laskow January 26, 2018
A close up of the fossilized teeth.
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Found: A 177,000-Year-Old Jawbone, the Oldest Evidence of Humans Outside Africa

The story of human migration is undergoing a dramatic revision.
Sarah Laskow January 25, 2018
Okay, bioswales can be nice.
science

Give Trees Some Space

Even city trees need some boundaries.
Sarah Laskow January 24, 2018