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Bees are astonishingly good at making decisions—and our computer model explains how that's possible
A honey bee’s life depends on it successfully harvesting nectar from flowers to make honey. Deciding…
Warming causes more extreme rain, not snow, over mountains and scientists say that's a problem
A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into extreme rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening…
A neutrino portrait of our galaxy reveals high-energy particles from within the Milky Way
Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked…
Astronomers puzzled by 'planet that shouldn't exist'
The search for planets outside our solar system—exoplanets—is one of the most rapidly growing fields in…
Using a detector the size of a galaxy, astronomers detect gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs
When black holes and other enormously massive, dense objects whirl around one another, they send out…
Polluting shipping to face climate reckoning
The hefty carbon footprint of global shipping networks that crisscross our oceans and keep the world’s…
Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the 'new abnormal'
It was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and…
As climate warms, US allows moving species threatened with extinction as a last resort
U.S. officials on Friday said they will make it easier for scientists to relocate plants and…
At least 13 die in extreme heat wave in US
At least 13 people have died from the extreme heat wave that has been tormenting the…