On a recent weekday in Denver a massive drilling rig bored a hole deep beneath the city. “We plan to…
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Life found beneath ice-covered Antarctic lake
Researchers have found signs of life in mud pulled from the bottom of an ice-covered lake in Antarctica. Studying microbes…
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Lip-smacking link between monkeys, humans
The lip-smacking vocalizations gelada monkeys make are surprisingly similar to human speech, a new study finds. Many nonhuman primates demonstrate…
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Death of hundreds of baby right whales continues to puzzle scientists
Scientists still don’t know why hundreds of baby southern right whales are turning up dead around Patagonia, a decade after…
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Ocean glow stick: Sea worm emits strange blue glow
One common sea worm has a rather uncommon trick: Chaeteopterus variopedatus also known as the parchment tube worm for the…
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Joan Rivers once said Mick Jagger’s lips are so big he could French-kiss a moose, and now the Rolling Stones…
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Polar bears on Google Maps! Street View comes to the Arctic
Google Street View has taken viewers to the Amazon, the Galapagos, and now, the Canadian Arctic the home of polar…
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