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A healthy oak eggar moth caterpillar.

Exploding Zombie Caterpillars Rain Death From on High

Creepy, yes, but not apocalyptic.

Natasha Frost August 2, 2017

Part of the reservoir created by the Serra da Mesa Dam.

A Dam in Brazil Has Altered the Course of Evolution

For geckos, which evolved larger heads to dine on termites.

Kelsey Kennedy August 1, 2017

On the Northern Great Plains in Alberta, Canada.

Gas and Oil Pumps Are a Boon to Parasitic Cowbirds

And prairie songbirds are paying the price.

Kelsey Kennedy July 31, 2017

Care for a jellyfish chip?

Jellyfish May Be the Snack Food of the Future

Scientists are trying to take the sting out of jellyfish blooms.

Natasha Frost July 31, 2017

Male (top) and female (bottom) sunburst cerulean-satyr butterflies are finally considered one species.

DNA Barcoding Shows That Two Butterfly Species Are One and the Same

They're an extreme case of sexual dimorphism.

Kelsey Kennedy July 28, 2017

A Landslide Was the Culprit Behind a Massive Tsunami in Greenland

This could be just the beginning.

Kelsey Kennedy July 27, 2017

Ronald Ross Memorial

Ronald Ross Memorial

A monument to the British doctor who connected mosquitoes to malaria.

The Tartu Old Observatory

The Struve Geodetic Arc

A historic scientific breakthrough that crosses nine borders.

An artist's depiction of <em>B. americana</em>, with its fossilized skull.

Just After a Mass Extinction, This Toothy Fish Ruled the Seas

A new fossil shows it topped the food chain earlier than was once thought.

Kelsey Kennedy July 26, 2017

George Lucas with Steven Spielberg, who did uncredited work on <i>Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith</i>.

'Scientific' Journals Caught in 'Star Wars' Sting Operation

Dr. Lucas McGeorge and Dr. Annette Kin are now published scientists.

Erik Shilling July 25, 2017

Fast-moving filament cloud structures on Venus.

There Are Giant Standing Waves in Venus's Atmosphere

Something's in the air on our closest neighbor.

Kelsey Kennedy July 25, 2017

A billion-lightyear section of the simulated universe. The yellow clumps are dark matter concentrations, and white areas are cosmic void.

Scientists Have Created a Virtual Universe to Practice Mapping the Real One

It took a computer 80 hours to generate 25 billion galaxies.

Kelsey Kennedy July 24, 2017

Wingtip vortices, 1990.

Watch a Swirly, Colorful NASA Vortex Test From the '70s

Wingtip vortices are pretty trippy.

Michael Waters July 24, 2017

High Rock Tower against a blue sky

Lynn, Massachusetts

High Rock Tower

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The dark blue area is the Diamantina Trench southwest of Perth. It is up to 26,401 feet deep.

Explore the Seafloor With Data Collected During the Search for MH370

The Australian government has released the results of a survey of the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Kelsey Kennedy July 21, 2017

First observation of neutrinos, which may also be Majorana fermions.

Found: A Particle That’s Its Own Anti-Particle

Sarah Laskow July 21, 2017

The Forensic Anthropology Research Facility.

San Marcos, Texas

Freeman Ranch Body Farm

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

The model is an exact, scale replica of the damaged spillway.

To Fix a California Dam, Engineers Are Putting a Giant Scale Model to the Test

Oroville Dam's spillway crumbled in February, and now California is racing for a fix.

Kelsey Kennedy July 19, 2017