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Cicadas use darkness cues from shadows to move toward trees

When periodical cicadas surface after years underground, they don’t grope blindly for trees. They head for the shadows, researchers report March 20 in the American Naturalist.A detailed analysis of Brood XIII cicadas — which spend 17 years developing in...

Unprecedented insight into memory champion’s brain reveals his tricks

Nelson Dellis is a six-time US memory champion who once memorised the order of a shuffled deck of cards...

Five things Juice has revealed about Comet 3I/ATLAS

Science & Exploration 02/04/2026 1560 views 15 likes‘Extreme but not exotic,’ – a glimpse at Comet 3I/ATLAS through the eyes of the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice). In November 2025, Juice was in the right place, at the...

Better urban design could help save Florida’s threatened Big Cypress fox squirrel

Florida is home to a host of diverse wildlife you can’t find anywhere else. Most people know of manatees and Florida panthers. But you might never have heard of the Big Cypress fox squirrel, a...

Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960s

With the world struggling to get oil supplies moving from the Middle East, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post highlighting a radical idea: Use nuclear bombs to cut a...

What Are Stabilizer Muscles (and Do You Really Need to Train Them)?

You may have heard dumbbell exercises are better than barbell ones because they work more of your “stabilizers,” or that free weights are...

There’s a bit of toilet trouble on NASA’s Artemis 2 mission to the moon

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — There's a little potty problem on NASA's Artemis 2 moon ship.Within hours of launch on Wednesday evening (April 1), the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission reported a glitch in what may have...

Doctors lose new jobs package as strike to go ahead

The offer of 1,000 more training posts has been withdrawn after the union refused to scrap the planned six-day strike. Source link

Tobacco plant altered to produce five psychedelic drugs

Scientists have engineered tobacco plants to produce five powerful psychedelic compounds normally found in other plants, fungi and animals...
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4/5/2026: Return to RAM; Ghost Train; The Mardi Gras Indians

First, a report on patients, cut off from health care, getting help. Then, the state of high-speed rail in...
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