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An Arnold Air Force Base team member swabs the muzzle of a tricolored bat in a cave near Arnold AFB, Tennessee, Dec. 5, 2022, to contribute to a study by Virginia Tech concerning the species and white-nose syndrome. WNS is named for a fungus that often looks like white fuzz on the muzzles of infected bats. Currently, there is not a cure for the disease. ((U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett))

Bat deaths linked to infant mortality

Troy Farah
Rossano study Dog and Soundboard (Courtesy of Comparative Cognition Lab at UC San Diego/Photo by Patrick Wood)

Yes, dogs understand soundboard words

Nicole Karlis
Water Bear, Phylum Tardigrade, showing all eight 8 legs, microscopic (Getty Images/Robert Pickett)

Secrets of tardigrade evolution revealed

Matthew Rozsa
Sperm whale and sound-waves, illustration. (Getty Images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Maybe don't use AI to talk with whales

Levi Stallings
Medium Mylodon Cave or Cueva del Milodon Natural Monument a leading attraction in the Natales region, Patagonia, southern (Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The demise of Darwin’s giant sloth

Nikolas Kozloff
DNA molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Editing fetal genomes is on the horizon

Julia Brown - The Conversation
Friends running together in a park (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

Why exercising to lose weight backfires

Matthew Rozsa
Long-billed Vulture (Gyps indicus) at Bandhavgarh National park, Madhya Pradesh, India (Getty Images/ePhotocorp)

Vulture deaths linked to human deaths

Matthew Rozsa
A .22 pistol firing at a target. (Getty Images/Jesse Bacon)

Second thoughts about gunshot detectors

Rod McCullom - Undark
Anti-Racism protest. (Getty Images/LeoPatrizi)

Racism and discrimination age you faster

Negar Fani, Nathaniel Harnett - The Conversation
Micro Dosing with Psilocybin Magic Mushrooms. Daily Micro Doses in a Pill Box (Getty Images/microgen)

The FDA and psychedelic research

Joshua Cohen - Undark
Portrait of scientist with projected mathematical data (Getty Images/Monty Rakusen)

Is math objectively real?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
(Shana Novak / Getty Images)

How exactly is cheese made?

John A. Lucey - The Conversation
Octopus with diver's hand underwater (Getty Images/Martin Steinthaler)

Plumbing the depths of animal minds

Carlyn Zwarenstein
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft launched atop its Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex in Florida on September 5, 1977. (NASA)

Behind Voyager 1's near-death experience

Matthew Rozsa
Lab Mouse (Getty Images/JacobStudio)

Nanorobots kill cancer cells in mice

Matthew Rozsa
Senate wing of the United States Capitol building (Getty Images/OGphoto)

Federal science funding at record lows

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Doctor taking patient blood pressure in hospital examination room. (Getty Images/Kobus Louw)

Unbalanced microbiome may cause diabetes

Matthew Rozsa
Family with dogs (Getty Images/boytsov)

Is Fido actually good for you?

Michael Schulson - Undark
Police car speeding through traffic at night time (Getty Images/TheaDesign)

When police shootings don’t kill

Rod McCullom - Undark
In late 2019, the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before and was classified as having an active galactic nucleus, powered by a massive black hole in the galaxy’s core. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Scientists witness a black hole awaken

Matthew Rozsa
Plate from 'The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle', published in London, 1839-1843, and edited by the British originator of evolutionary theory Charles Darwin (1809-1882). (SSPL/Getty Images)

The enduring mystery of Darwin’s warrah

Nikolas Kozloff
Big Bang, conceptual image (Getty Images/ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Did alien life form after the Big Bang?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 during NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test on June 05, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Boeing Starliner averts disaster

Rae Hodge
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