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Y’all versus yinz: Accents may say more about who we are than where we’re from
20 April 2026 @ 6:02 pm
There's more to our speech than meets the ear.
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450-million year old jellyfish ancestor looks like a flailing carwash tubeman
20 April 2026 @ 3:44 pm
‘Paleocanna tentaculum’ was more closely related to today’s marine invertebrates than its prehistoric relatives.
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Bruce is missing his upper beak, but it has not stopped him from dominance
20 April 2026 @ 3:00 pm
Inside the bird eat bird world of ‘beak jousting.’
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Two mountain lion cubs rescued from certain death
20 April 2026 @ 1:22 pm
Crimson and Clover are now on the road to recovery at Oakland Zoo in California.
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New Artemis II astronaut iPhone video reveals new Earthset view
20 April 2026 @ 12:34 pm
‘Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos.’
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Why spring smells like semen and rotting fish
19 April 2026 @ 7:04 pm
Blame the invasive Bradford pear tree.
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8 cool images from the Mangrove Photography Awards
19 April 2026 @ 5:16 pm
The 12th annual competition is now open for submissions.
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New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster
19 April 2026 @ 2:07 pm
It took 120 years to figure out the forgotten fossil belonged to an extinct giant echidna.
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The best brownie recipe, according to science
19 April 2026 @ 12:01 pm
Fat is key for fudgy brownies.
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One man’s obsessive quest to weigh the human soul
19 April 2026 @ 12:04 am
The 21 grams experiment continues to fascinate us a century later.
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