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Animals & Nature

How the Flatfish Got Its Weird Body β€” and Why It Stumped Darwin's Critics

Flounders have both eyes on one side of their head and lie flat on the ocean floor. This bizarre design baffled scientists for centuries β€” but new fossil and DNA evidence is finally solving the mystery.

5 min readabout 22 hours ago
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Health

Fresh, Frozen, or Canned: Which Fruits and Vegetables Are Actually Best for You?

The idea that fresh produce is always the healthiest option turns out to be more complicated than most people think. Research shows frozen and canned fruits and vegetables can match fresh produce on nutrition β€” and beat it on cost and convenience.

5 min read16 days ago
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Science

The First Land Animals Never Had a Tadpole Stage, and That Rewrites Evolution

A tiny fossil sitting in a museum drawer for 60 years has overturned a long-held assumption about how ancient animals made the leap from water to land β€” and revealed that amphibian metamorphosis might be a newer invention than anyone thought.

5 min read2 months ago
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History

Mohenjo-daro: The Ancient City That Grew More Equal as It Got More Powerful

Most ancient civilizations concentrated wealth and power at the top, but a 4,000-year-old Indus city called Mohenjo-daro did the opposite. New research reveals it became increasingly equal as it grew, flipping one of history's biggest assumptions.

5 min read2 months ago
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Science

The Mathematician Few Talk About Who Helped Build Modern Physics

Emmy Noether proved one of the most powerful theorems in all of science, yet most people have never heard of her. Her discovery about symmetry sits at the foundation of everything from Einstein's relativity to the physics of particles.

5 min read2 months ago
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Science

Growth Rings in Fossil Bones Reveal T. rex Spent 40 Years Becoming a Giant

A new study of 17 tyrannosaur fossils has overturned a long-held idea about how fast T. rex grew up β€” and raised big questions about whether some famous fossils are even T. rex at all.

5 min read2 months ago
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Science

Spinosaurus Was Built for Water, But Scientists Are Still Debating the Details

It was longer than a school bus, had a sail on its back, and hunted fish in prehistoric seas. Spinosaurus is one of paleontology's biggest mysteries β€” and the debate about how it lived is far from over.

5 min read2 months ago

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