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Fruit was disappearing from a parasitic plant in southern Japan, sometimes nearly an entire plant's worth overnight. Ants ...

Today's Image of the Day from the European Space Agency features a dying star surrounded by a vast cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny ...

Dogs have lived beside people for thousands of years, but modern breeds tell only the newest part of that history. Today, ...

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Rivers have always carried sediment in fits and starts, dumping most of it during storms rather than spreading it evenly across the year. A new study has ...