Science and reality
From the naked mole rate to Malayan tigers, Joe Sartore has set out to capture 12,000 species of animals around the world, and he's almost halfway there.
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Weapons piloted from afar have been around for more than a century.
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Space photos of the week, December 6–12.
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The convention center hosting the Paris climate talks has a lot of floorspace, booths, and particleboards.
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Anand Varma photographs parasitic organisms and their zombified hosts. It's a little bit terrifying and a whole lot of awesome.
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Space photos of the week, November 29–December 5.
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True to its name, the mimic octopus impersonates a variety of other animals on the fly, morphing from an octopus to a banded sole to a lionfish to a sea snake.
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One doesn’t just set off a nuclear weapon. So nuclear physicists are dissecting old bomb test footage to uncover the weapons' secrets.
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The winning videos from the 2015 American Physics Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics annual visualization contest are here!
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Private rocket-builders are competing for a NASA contract to supply the International Space Station. First they have to get there.
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