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Bizarre fish has sensory “legs” it uses for walking and tasting

Finding out what controls the formation of sensory legs meant growing sea robins from eggs. The research team observed that the legs of sea robins...

Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas

EnlargeDerek Berwin Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are...

A single peptide helps starfish get rid of a limb when attacked

EnlargeHal Beral For many creatures, having a limb caught in a predator’s mouth is usually a death sentence. Not starfish, though—they can...

Meteorites give the Moon its extremely thin atmosphere

Enlarge / Artist's rendition of the LADEE mission above the lunar surface.NASA/ Dana Berry The Moon may not have much of an...

Mini-Neptune turned out to be a frozen super-Earth

Enlarge / Renditions of a possible composition of LHS 1140 b, with a patch of ocean on the side facing its host star. Earth...

Egalitarian oddity found in the Neolithic

Enlarge / A skeleton found during 1950's excavations at the Barman site.Université de Genève Did ancient people practice equality? While stereotypes may...

Swarm of dusty young stars found around our galaxy’s central black hole

Enlarge / The Milky Way's central black hole is in a very crowded neighborhood.UMass/D.Wang/NASA/STScI Supermassive black holes are ravenous. Clumps of dust...

How do brainless creatures control their appetites?

EnlargeCHOKSAWATDIKORN / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The hydra is a Lovecraftian-looking microorganism with a mouth surrounded by tentacles on one end, an elongated...

How the perils of space have affected asteroid Ryugu

Enlarge / The surface of Ryugu. Image credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University,...

Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain

EnlargeOsakaWayne Studios As if we didn’t have enough reasons to get at least eight hours of sleep, there is now one more....

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