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Aerial-view-of-some-of-the-fish-salting-tanks-cetaria-in-the-ancient-Roman-city-of-Baelo-Claudia-near-todays-Tarifa-in-Spain.-The-largest-circular-tank-is-3-meters-wide-with-a-18m3-capacity. (D. Bernal-Casasola, University of Cadiz)

Lost Whales

July 16, 2018

Whales used the Mediterranean as breeding grounds during ancient Roman times.

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A palm cockatoo. (wildfaces/pixabay/CCO)

Drumming Cockatoos

July 13, 2018

Researchers discover that cockatoos use sticks and seed pods to drum out rhythms on tree limbs.

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Researchers in Texas attached miniature radio transmitters to kissing bugs and tracked their movements. (Gabriel Hamer/Texas A&M University/Journal of Medical Entomology)

Tracking Kissing Bugs

July 12, 2018

Miniature transmitters help scientists track a blood-sucking pest.

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This photograph shows a ballooning spider. Michael Hutchinson

Spider Ballooning

July 11, 2018

Spiders sail through the air on electrical currents.

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Made from Lego bricks and a smart phone, a device is connected to free software and utilizes the phone's camera to identify and detect nerve agents, like VX and sarin. (University of Texas at Austin)

Lego Nerve Gas Detector

July 10, 2018

Chemists design a mobile, affordable nerve gas detector out of Lego bricks.

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An orangutan mother and infant in heavily disturbed landscape dominated by oil palm plantations in the Lower Kinabatangan floodplain, Malaysia Borneo. (HUTAN KOCP Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme)

Orangutan Resilience

July 9, 2018

Orangutans may be more resilient to human disturbance than once thought.

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Chihuahuas trace their DNA back to European breeds rather than ancient American dogs. BarnImages/Pixabay/CCO)

North American Dogs

July 6, 2018

What happened to ancient American dogs, and where did they come from in the first place?

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Lifespan Limits

July 2, 2018

When it comes to lifespan, do humans have a fixed finish line?

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Small Town Archaeology

June 29, 2018

A town square offers a trove of archaeological discoveries.

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eDermis

June 28, 2018

Synthetic skin can restore a richer sense of touch to prosthetic limb users.

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Image of a giant anteater

Anteater Diet

June 27, 2018

How giant anteaters get enough food into their tiny mouths to survive.

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(Robert Lachlan)

Songbird Culture

June 26, 2018

How a small songbird’s cultural traditions persist for more than a thousand years.

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