Octopuses may have vivid nightmares, video suggests
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Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections
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The biology of mistletoe: Best known as a holiday trimming, the parasitic plant is a botanical luminary in its own right
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Decoding the mathematical secrets of plants’ stunning leaf patterns
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Nine of the weirdest penises in the animal kingdom, from the echidna’s four-headed unit to the dolphin’s prehensile member
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The search for what causes chronic itching
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Inside a lab in Costa Rica that produces snake antivenom
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Lake Kivu is one of Africa's strangest bodies of water, with dense depths packed with methane and carbon dioxide gas
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What is math? A teenager asked that age-old question on TikTok, creating a viral backlash, and then, a thoughtful scientific debate
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Why fireworks scare some dogs but not others
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More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America
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A surrogate cheetah gave birth to two cubs at the Columbus Zoo. This birth marks a scientific breakthrough: it is the first successful embryo transfer to have ever been performed on a cheetah
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Deciphering the genetic diversity of leaf shapes
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In pursuit of better baby formula: Replicating human milk is no easy feat—nor is separating the science from the hype
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A new study posits that tsunamis triggered by the Great Alaska Earthquake in 1964 washed a deadly fungus onto the shore
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Digitizing objects from Smithsonian's enormous collection
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What responsibility do archaeologists have when their research about prehistoric finds is appropriated to make 21st-century arguments about ethnicity?
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The snakes that ate Florida: Biologists wade deep into the Everglades to wrestle with the invasion of giant pythons threatening the state’s wetlands
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Prehistoric Angolan “sea monsters” take up residence at the Natural History Museum in Washington, DC
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History revamps its dinosaur exhibit, showing dinosaurs caring for their young
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Plant like fossil thought to be the first animal relative
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