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Science Today Quiz
Spanish researchers recently discovered that noise in the ocean severely affects
- Coral
- Sea Lions
- Squid
- Eels
That’s right!
Cephalopods like squid, cuttlefish and octopuses are so sensitive that ocean noise pollution can kill them. Read more here.
Oops!
Cephalopods like squid, cuttlefish and octopuses are so sensitive that ocean noise pollution can kill them. Read more here.
The last launch of NASA’s space shuttles is scheduled for late June. How many missions have shuttles flown?
- 57
- 82
- 135
- 208
Correct!
Atlantis’ launch in June is mission number 135. Learn more here.
Wrong!
Atlantis’ launch in June is mission number 135. Learn more here.
Plants on exoplanets with two suns may be
- Green
- Blue
- Red
- Black
Correct!
Discover all the potentials of alien plant life here.
Bummer!
Discover all the potentials of alien plant life here.
In Antarctica, climate change seems to be already wreaking havoc. Even toward the bottom of the food chain, this creature is upsetting populations of other, larger animals.
- Krill
- Anchovies
- Phytoplankton
- Zooplankton
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Top Story: January 3, 2012
Quadrantid Meteor Shower 2012
Start your New Year with a light show-- the Quadrantid Meteor Shower!
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Top Story: January 4, 2012
Leave Those Bees Alone!
Local researchers have found another foe of the honey bees: deadly parasitic flies.
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Top Story: January 5, 2012
The Opportunistic Mimic
Here's a mimic that mimics a mimic!
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Top Story: January 6, 2012
Superants & Fracking Quakes
The first week of 2012 has already packed a wallop with science news stories. Here are a few we didn’t want you to miss.
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Top Story: January 9, 2012
Leaping Tails
Here’s a tale about tails—lizards’, robots’ and dinosaurs’ tails to be exact.
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Top Story: January 10, 2012
Dark Matter Map
“Dark” Doesn’t Mean “Doesn’t Exist”
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Top Story: January 11, 2012
Stars are Born
Reporting from day two of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas…
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Top Story: January 12, 2012
Planets, Planets, Planets
Reporting from day three of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas…
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Top Story: January 17, 2012
Evolution of Multicellularity
Experimental Evolution! Don't try this at home...
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Top Story: January 18, 2012
Claw or Nail?
What's the difference between a claw and nail? Perhaps human origins!
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Top Story: January 19, 2012
Earth-like Titan
Researchers are discovering more Earth-like features on Saturn's moon, Titan.
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Top Story: January 20, 2012
Universe Update, January 2012
Coming at you from the desk of the Director of the Morrison Planetarium, hand-picked stories in space and astronomy news.
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Top Story: January 23, 2012
Bowerbirds' Optical Illusions
Ah, the trouble lovelorn males will go to to get some lovin’.
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Top Story: January 24, 2012
Archaeopteryx in Color
Researchers have uncovered the color and flight abilities of the important dinosaur-bird.
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Top Story: January 25, 2012
Solar Storm Hits Earth
Or so the headlines have read for the past few days. Here’s the skinny on the largest solar storm since 2003…
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Top Story: January 26, 2012
Magnetic Soap
The first magnetic soap may assist in cleaning waste-water and oil spills.
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Top Story: January 31, 2012
Blurry Spider Vision
Scientists have now brought jumping spiders' blurry vision into focus.
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Top Story: February 1, 2012
Volcanoes and Little Ice Age
Could four volcanoes trigger an ice age that lasted for centuries?
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Top Story: February 2, 2012
New Neighbors?
An new, nearby exoplanet may be the most habitable yet!
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Top Story: February 3, 2012
Climate Proposals and Support
Last month, two exciting steps were taken to help the fight against global warming.
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Top Story: February 6, 2012
Spider Mating
Male spiders will go to extraordinary measures to avoid being eaten after mating.
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Top Story: February 7, 2012
A Plant-Filled Planet
Plants shaped the surface of Earth, affecting the oceans and climate of our planet as they began to appear 470 million years ago.
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Top Story: February 8, 2012
Reaching Lake Vostok
Russian scientists have drilled into an Antarctic lake, two miles under ice.
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Top Story: February 10, 2012
A Murderous Plant!
Meet a newly-discovered carnivorous plant that uses its underground leaves to feed upon worms!
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Top Story: February 13, 2012
The Zebra's Stripes
The reason for the zebra's stripes may have even surprised Darwin...
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Top Story: February 14, 2012
Happy Valentine's Day
A Valentine's treat for science-fans!
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Top Story: February 15, 2012
Asteroid Snacks
Is the black hole at the center of the Milky Way munching on asteroids?
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Top Story: February 16, 2012
Biologging
The successes and failures of tracking marine animals.
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Top Story: February 17, 2012
Cleaner Cookstoves
Why cookstoves are "one of the largest problems facing the world today."
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Top Story: February 21, 2012
Things That Go Bump
The latest in particle physics, straight from the AAAS meeting!
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