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A selection of the images shown to the monkeys in the trial.
monkeys

Rhesus Monkeys See Faces in Objects, Just Like We Do

Yes, that coffee does look a bit like a face.
Natasha Frost August 28, 2017
science

Meet the World's Newest Pig-Nosed Purple Frog

Members of this unusual species spend most of their lives underground, only emerging during monsoon rains.
Kelsey Kennedy August 25, 2017
science

Simple Rules for Making Giant Geometrical Stars

The math behind the magic.
Sarah Laskow August 22, 2017
The International Space Station crosses the solar disk during the eclipse.
science

The International Space Station Had Two Views of the Eclipse

And cast a shadow of its own.
Samir S. Patel August 22, 2017
Researcher Christina Kwapich looks at a sample in the Insect Rearing and Behavior Lab at Arizona State University.
science

The Beetle That Goes Undercover to Steal From Foraging Ants

The high-risk, high-return antics of the parasitic highwayman beetle.
Natasha Frost August 21, 2017
Observers on a New York City rooftop, recording whether they saw totality for the Consolidated Gas survey in 1925.
science

How New York City's Electrical Utilities Observed the 1925 Eclipse

The predecessors to ConEdison wanted to know how an eclipse affected the grid.
Kelsey Kennedy August 21, 2017
Any astronauts who consumed this product did so with their feet on the ground.
science

Space Station Astronauts Are High on a Fresh Ice Cream Shipment

It's not the freeze-dried stuff.
Natasha Frost August 18, 2017
science

Meet the Bipes: Lizards With Only Two Legs

You're forgiven for thinking they look like earthworms.
Kelsey Kennedy August 17, 2017
Scottish whiskies taste "spicier" and "peatier" than their foreign counterparts, because chemistry.
science

The Best Way to Drink Whiskey Is With a Bit of Water, After All

Diluters, consider yourselves absolved.
Natasha Frost August 17, 2017
Poplar trees at the test site. The second and fourth rows (from the left) were inoculated with the probiotic bacteria.
science

Giving Trees Probiotics Can Help Clean Up Superfund Sites

Scientists have found bacteria that like gobbling up a common toxic chemical.
Kelsey Kennedy August 15, 2017
An ostracod.
science

Found: Tiny Shrimp Hiding in Hot Springs

Also, snails smaller than a grain of sand.
Sarah Laskow August 15, 2017
This Babylonian diagram, <em>Imago Mundi</em>, is thought to be one of the oldest maps of the world, dating to the sixth century B.C.
science

How to Predict an Eclipse Without a Computer

Some methods are easier than others.
Natasha Frost August 14, 2017
Museum exhibition and a clock that stopped when the bomb dropped.
Nagasaki, Japan

Atomic Bomb Medical Museum

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.
science

Mystery 'Metal Starfish' Found Off Rhode Island Coast

Answers will come soon enough.
Erik Shilling August 14, 2017
The newly described volcanoes are under the ice from the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Peninsula, on the left side of this composite satellite image.
volcanoes

Antarctica's Ice Hides 91 Newly Described Volcanoes

And one of the largest proteins ever discovered.
Kelsey Kennedy August 14, 2017
Arriving at Eighty Mile Beach.
science

The 1922 Eclipse Adventure That Sought to Confirm the Theory of Relativity

It took 35 tons of equipment and a lengthy voyage to remote Western Australia.
Anika Burgess August 11, 2017
The three corpse flowers in the United States Botanic Garden Conservatory, on August 11.
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3 Corpse Flowers Are About to Bloom in Washington, D.C.

They're expected to open up right around the solar eclipse on August 21.
Kelsey Kennedy August 11, 2017
Specimens on display.
Nagasaki, Japan

Museum of Tropical Medicine

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.