Flamingos Summon Mini-Twisters to Suck Up Prey
Three cooperative birds and a model bird head helped scientists figure out what flamingos are actually doing when they stick their heads upside down underwater.
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1 Astronaut, Many Cameras and 220 Days of Amazing Images From Space
Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, returned to Earth on April 20, the day he turned 70 years old. That concluded his fourth trip to space — a busy 220 days at the International Space Station. Like other crew members on the space station, Mr ...
The Best Way to Drop an Egg
How the shell cracks in an exercise known as the egg drop challenge turned out to be more complicated than science teachers have been telling students for many years.
These Beautiful Birds Form Something Like Lasting Friendships
Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said.
Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of Coronaviruses in Bats
As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.
N.I.H. Bars New Funding From U.S. Scientists to Partners Abroad
Generally, researchers will no longer be allowed to direct federal funds to international collaborators.
Watch a Meteor Shower Made by Halley’s Comet
The Eta Aquarids will reach their peak Monday night into Tuesday morning.
Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time
Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.
Ronan the Sea Lion Is Probably Better Than You at Keeping a Beat
This is Ronan. She’s a California sea lion and she probably has better rhythm than you. Scientists earlier showed that Ronan, a resident of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the first nonhuman mammal who ...
A Diver Visited a Fallen Whale. When He Returned, It Had Vanished.
How does an 18-foot-long, 2,000-pound carcass just disappear? That question has puzzled some divers and photographers who regularly plunge into the waters off San Diego. It started earlier this spring when Doug Bonhaus took advantage of some calm ...
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