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Can you actually die of a broken heart?

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Death by heartbreak doesn't just happen in stories. In real life, severe stress can cause the sometimes-fatal takotsubo syndrome.

Ghostly white northern lights present new auroral mystery

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These mysterious whitish-gray glows in the northern lights might be cousins of the mauve light streak known as STEVE.

Like flyways for birds, we need to map swimways for fish

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Mapping fish migration routes and identifying threats is crucial to protecting freshwater species and their habitats, ecologists argue.

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Chatty bats are more likely to take risks

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Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiments suggest, which could play into social dynamics within a colony.

This drawing is the oldest known sketch of an insect brain

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Found in a roughly 350-year-old manuscript by Dutch biologist Johannes Swammerdam, the scientific illustration shows the brain of a honeybee drone.

Yes, you can blame climate change for the LA wildfires

Climate change fuels LA wildfires

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Weather data show how humankind’s burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, windy weather more likely, setting the stage for the Los Angeles wildfires.

Jan 27, 2025

Cricket frogs belly flop their way across water

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Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.

Jan 24, 2025

A cosmic ‘Platypus’ might link two astronomical mysteries

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A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

Fever’s link with a key kind of immunity is surprisingly ancient

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When sick, Nile tilapia seek warmer water. That behavioral fever triggers a specialized immune response, hinting the connection evolved long ago.

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